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<title>nl80211: fix sched scan netlink socket owner destruction</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T02:51:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-05T09:57:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 753aacfd2e95df6a0caf23c03dc309020765bea9 ]

A single netlink socket might own multiple interfaces *and* a
scheduled scan request (which might belong to another interface),
so when it goes away both may need to be destroyed.

Remove the schedule_scan_stop indirection to fix this - it's only
needed for interface destruction because of the way this works
right now, with a single work taking care of all interfaces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 93a1e86ce10e4 ("nl80211: Stop scheduled scan if netlink client disappears")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 753aacfd2e95df6a0caf23c03dc309020765bea9 ]

A single netlink socket might own multiple interfaces *and* a
scheduled scan request (which might belong to another interface),
so when it goes away both may need to be destroyed.

Remove the schedule_scan_stop indirection to fix this - it's only
needed for interface destruction because of the way this works
right now, with a single work taking care of all interfaces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 93a1e86ce10e4 ("nl80211: Stop scheduled scan if netlink client disappears")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nl80211: validate number of probe response CSA counters</title>
<updated>2016-10-03T01:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-13T13:53:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ad5987b47e96a0fb6d13fea250e936aed000093c ]

Due to an apparent copy/paste bug, the number of counters for the
beacon configuration were checked twice, instead of checking the
number of probe response counters. Fix this to check the number of
probe response counters before parsing those.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9a774c78e211 ("cfg80211: Support multiple CSA counters")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ad5987b47e96a0fb6d13fea250e936aed000093c ]

Due to an apparent copy/paste bug, the number of counters for the
beacon configuration were checked twice, instead of checking the
number of probe response counters. Fix this to check the number of
probe response counters before parsing those.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9a774c78e211 ("cfg80211: Support multiple CSA counters")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel"</title>
<updated>2016-10-02T16:47:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-08T06:45:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4d0bd46a4d55383f7b925e6cf7865a77e0f0e020 ]

This reverts commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724.

Ben Hutchings pointed out that the commit isn't safe since it assumes
that the structure used by the driver is iw_point, when in fact there's
no way to know about that.

Fortunately, the only driver in the tree that ever runs this code path
is the wilc1000 staging driver, so it doesn't really matter.

Clearly I should have investigated this better before applying, sorry.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [though I guess it doesn't matter much]
Fixes: 3d5fdff46c4b ("wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4d0bd46a4d55383f7b925e6cf7865a77e0f0e020 ]

This reverts commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724.

Ben Hutchings pointed out that the commit isn't safe since it assumes
that the structure used by the driver is iw_point, when in fact there's
no way to know about that.

Fortunately, the only driver in the tree that ever runs this code path
is the wilc1000 staging driver, so it doesn't really matter.

Clearly I should have investigated this better before applying, sorry.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [though I guess it doesn't matter much]
Fixes: 3d5fdff46c4b ("wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel</title>
<updated>2016-06-18T20:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prasun Maiti</name>
<email>prasunmaiti87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-06T14:34:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724 ]

iwpriv app uses iw_point structure to send data to Kernel. The iw_point
structure holds a pointer. For compatibility Kernel converts the pointer
as required for WEXT IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRST to SIOCIWLAST). Some drivers
may use iw_handler_def.private_args to populate iwpriv commands instead
of iw_handler_def.private. For those case, the IOCTLs from
SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to SIOCIWLASTPRIV will follow the path ndo_do_ioctl().
Accordingly when the filled up iw_point structure comes from 32 bit
iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel, Kernel will not convert the pointer and sends
it to driver. So, the driver may get the invalid data.

The pointer conversion for the IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to
SIOCIWLASTPRIV), which follow the path ndo_do_ioctl(), is mandatory.
This patch adds pointer conversion from 32 bit to 64 bit and vice versa,
if the ioctl comes from 32 bit iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Prasun Maiti &lt;prasunmaiti87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy &lt;royujjal@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dibyajyoti Ghosh &lt;dibyajyotig@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724 ]

iwpriv app uses iw_point structure to send data to Kernel. The iw_point
structure holds a pointer. For compatibility Kernel converts the pointer
as required for WEXT IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRST to SIOCIWLAST). Some drivers
may use iw_handler_def.private_args to populate iwpriv commands instead
of iw_handler_def.private. For those case, the IOCTLs from
SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to SIOCIWLASTPRIV will follow the path ndo_do_ioctl().
Accordingly when the filled up iw_point structure comes from 32 bit
iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel, Kernel will not convert the pointer and sends
it to driver. So, the driver may get the invalid data.

The pointer conversion for the IOCTLs (SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV to
SIOCIWLASTPRIV), which follow the path ndo_do_ioctl(), is mandatory.
This patch adds pointer conversion from 32 bit to 64 bit and vice versa,
if the ioctl comes from 32 bit iwpriv to 64 bit Kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Prasun Maiti &lt;prasunmaiti87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy &lt;royujjal@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dibyajyoti Ghosh &lt;dibyajyotig@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification</title>
<updated>2016-05-08T12:08:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Ivanov</name>
<email>dmitrijs.ivanovs@ubnt.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-06T14:23:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb ]

A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as
used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd
process) with a different protocol number.

Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's
socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as
removing a virtual interface.

Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC.
Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the
problem more generically.

Fixes: 026331c4d9b5 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov &lt;dima@ubnt.com&gt;
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb ]

A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as
used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd
process) with a different protocol number.

Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's
socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as
removing a virtual interface.

Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC.
Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the
problem more generically.

Fixes: 026331c4d9b5 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov &lt;dima@ubnt.com&gt;
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering</title>
<updated>2016-03-18T03:13:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T12:29:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cb150b9d23be6ee7f3a0fff29784f1c5b5ac514d ]

Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cb150b9d23be6ee7f3a0fff29784f1c5b5ac514d ]

Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wext: fix message delay/ordering</title>
<updated>2016-03-18T03:13:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T11:37:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 ]

Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a
given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the
message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the
interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted
caused a wext message.

For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is
without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link"
prints just rudimentary information:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Deleted 5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether
(from my hwsim reproduction)

This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an
RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK.

The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the
messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out
to userspace in different order.

To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out
any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any
ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier
itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani &lt;bgalvani@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 ]

Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a
given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the
message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the
interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted
caused a wext message.

For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is
without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link"
prints just rudimentary information:

5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Deleted 5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt;
    link/ether
(from my hwsim reproduction)

This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an
RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK.

The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the
messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out
to userspace in different order.

To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out
any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any
ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier
itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani &lt;bgalvani@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nl80211: Fix potential memory leak from parse_acl_data</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:03:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ola Olsson</name>
<email>ola1olsson@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T06:04:58+00:00</published>
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commit 4baf6bea37247e59f1971e8009d13aeda95edba2 upstream.

If parse_acl_data succeeds but the subsequent parsing of smps
attributes fails, there will be a memory leak due to early returns.
Fix that by moving the ACL parsing later.

Fixes: 18998c381b19b ("cfg80211: allow requesting SMPS mode on ap start")
Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson &lt;ola.olsson@sonymobile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4baf6bea37247e59f1971e8009d13aeda95edba2 upstream.

If parse_acl_data succeeds but the subsequent parsing of smps
attributes fails, there will be a memory leak due to early returns.
Fix that by moving the ACL parsing later.

Fixes: 18998c381b19b ("cfg80211: allow requesting SMPS mode on ap start")
Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson &lt;ola.olsson@sonymobile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: ignore netif running state when changing iftype</title>
<updated>2015-08-03T16:29:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kazior</name>
<email>michal.kazior@tieto.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-22T08:57:22+00:00</published>
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commit 6cbfb1bb66e4e85da5db78e8ff429a85bd84ce64 upstream.

It was possible for mac80211 to be coerced into an
unexpected flow causing sdata union to become
corrupted. Station pointer was put into
sdata-&gt;u.vlan.sta memory location while it was
really master AP's sdata-&gt;u.ap.next_beacon. This
led to station entry being later freed as
next_beacon before __sta_info_flush() in
ieee80211_stop_ap() and a subsequent invalid
pointer dereference crash.

The problem was that ieee80211_ptr-&gt;use_4addr
wasn't cleared on interface type changes.

This could be reproduced with the following steps:

 # host A and host B have just booted; no
 # wpa_s/hostapd running; all vifs are down
 host A&gt; iw wlan0 set type station
 host A&gt; iw wlan0 set 4addr on
 host A&gt; printf 'interface=wlan0\nssid=4addrcrash\nchannel=1\nwds_sta=1' &gt; /tmp/hconf
 host A&gt; hostapd -B /tmp/conf
 host B&gt; iw wlan0 set 4addr on
 host B&gt; ifconfig wlan0 up
 host B&gt; iw wlan0 connect -w hostAssid
 host A&gt; pkill hostapd
 # host A crashed:

 [  127.928192] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000006c8
 [  127.929014] IP: [&lt;ffffffff816f4f32&gt;] __sta_info_flush+0xac/0x158
 ...
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff8170789e&gt;] ieee80211_stop_ap+0x139/0x26c
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff8100498f&gt;] ? dump_trace+0x279/0x28a
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff816dc661&gt;] __cfg80211_stop_ap+0x84/0x191
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff816dc7ad&gt;] cfg80211_stop_ap+0x3f/0x58
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff816c5ad6&gt;] nl80211_stop_ap+0x1b/0x1d
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff815e53f8&gt;] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x259/0x2b5

Note: This isn't a revert of f8cdddb8d61d
("cfg80211: check iface combinations only when
iface is running") as far as functionality is
considered because b6a550156bc ("cfg80211/mac80211:
move more combination checks to mac80211") moved
the logic somewhere else already.

Fixes: f8cdddb8d61d ("cfg80211: check iface combinations only when iface is running")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior &lt;michal.kazior@tieto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6cbfb1bb66e4e85da5db78e8ff429a85bd84ce64 upstream.

It was possible for mac80211 to be coerced into an
unexpected flow causing sdata union to become
corrupted. Station pointer was put into
sdata-&gt;u.vlan.sta memory location while it was
really master AP's sdata-&gt;u.ap.next_beacon. This
led to station entry being later freed as
next_beacon before __sta_info_flush() in
ieee80211_stop_ap() and a subsequent invalid
pointer dereference crash.

The problem was that ieee80211_ptr-&gt;use_4addr
wasn't cleared on interface type changes.

This could be reproduced with the following steps:

 # host A and host B have just booted; no
 # wpa_s/hostapd running; all vifs are down
 host A&gt; iw wlan0 set type station
 host A&gt; iw wlan0 set 4addr on
 host A&gt; printf 'interface=wlan0\nssid=4addrcrash\nchannel=1\nwds_sta=1' &gt; /tmp/hconf
 host A&gt; hostapd -B /tmp/conf
 host B&gt; iw wlan0 set 4addr on
 host B&gt; ifconfig wlan0 up
 host B&gt; iw wlan0 connect -w hostAssid
 host A&gt; pkill hostapd
 # host A crashed:

 [  127.928192] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000006c8
 [  127.929014] IP: [&lt;ffffffff816f4f32&gt;] __sta_info_flush+0xac/0x158
 ...
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff8170789e&gt;] ieee80211_stop_ap+0x139/0x26c
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff8100498f&gt;] ? dump_trace+0x279/0x28a
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff816dc661&gt;] __cfg80211_stop_ap+0x84/0x191
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff816dc7ad&gt;] cfg80211_stop_ap+0x3f/0x58
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff816c5ad6&gt;] nl80211_stop_ap+0x1b/0x1d
 [  127.934578]  [&lt;ffffffff815e53f8&gt;] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x259/0x2b5

Note: This isn't a revert of f8cdddb8d61d
("cfg80211: check iface combinations only when
iface is running") as far as functionality is
considered because b6a550156bc ("cfg80211/mac80211:
move more combination checks to mac80211") moved
the logic somewhere else already.

Fixes: f8cdddb8d61d ("cfg80211: check iface combinations only when iface is running")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior &lt;michal.kazior@tieto.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver</title>
<updated>2015-06-09T20:54:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-09T19:35:44+00:00</published>
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Until recently, mac80211 overwrote all the statistics it could
provide when getting called, but it now relies on the struct
having been zeroed by the caller. This was always the case in
nl80211, but wext used a static struct which could even cause
values from one device leak to another.

Using a static struct is OK (as even documented in a comment)
since the whole usage of this function and its return value is
always locked under RTNL. Not clearing the struct for calling
the driver has always been wrong though, since drivers were
free to only fill values they could report, so calling this
for one device and then for another would always have leaked
values from one to the other.

Fix this by initializing the structure in question before the
driver method call.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Alexander Kaltsas &lt;alexkaltsas@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Until recently, mac80211 overwrote all the statistics it could
provide when getting called, but it now relies on the struct
having been zeroed by the caller. This was always the case in
nl80211, but wext used a static struct which could even cause
values from one device leak to another.

Using a static struct is OK (as even documented in a comment)
since the whole usage of this function and its return value is
always locked under RTNL. Not clearing the struct for calling
the driver has always been wrong though, since drivers were
free to only fill values they could report, so calling this
for one device and then for another would always have leaked
values from one to the other.

Fix this by initializing the structure in question before the
driver method call.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Alexander Kaltsas &lt;alexkaltsas@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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