From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com
[ Upstream commit 9e2db50f1ef2238fc2f71c5de1c0418b7a5b0ea2 ]
This is needed since it might use (and pass out) pointers to e.g. keys protected by RCU. Can't really happen here as the frames aren't encrypted, but we need to still adhere to the rules.
Fixes: cacfddf82baf ("mac80211_hwsim: initialize ieee80211_tx_info at hw_scan_work") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220505230421.5f139f9de173.I77ae111a28f7c0e9fd1eb... Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c index cc550ba0c9df..afd2d5add04b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -2264,11 +2264,13 @@ static void hw_scan_work(struct work_struct *work) if (req->ie_len) skb_put_data(probe, req->ie, req->ie_len);
+ rcu_read_lock(); if (!ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb(hwsim->hw, hwsim->hw_scan_vif, probe, hwsim->tmp_chan->band, NULL)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); kfree_skb(probe); continue; } @@ -2276,6 +2278,7 @@ static void hw_scan_work(struct work_struct *work) local_bh_disable(); mac80211_hwsim_tx_frame(hwsim->hw, probe, hwsim->tmp_chan); + rcu_read_unlock(); local_bh_enable(); } }