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Shuah Khan 14ebaeeff8 Revert "ath9k: fix ath_tx_process_buffer() potential null ptr dereference" 
This reverts commit a56c14bb21.

ath_tx_process_buffer() doesn't dereference or check sta and passes it
to ath_tx_complete_aggr() and ath_tx_complete_buf().

ath_tx_complete_aggr() checks the pointer before use. No problem here.

ath_tx_complete_buf() doesn't check or dereference sta and passes it on
to ath_tx_complete(). ath_tx_complete() doesn't check or dereference sta,
but assigns it to tx_info->status.status_driver_data[0]

ath_tx_complete_buf() is called from ath_tx_complete_aggr() passing
null ieee80211_sta pointer.

There is a potential for dereference later on, if and when the
tx_info->status.status_driver_data[0]is referenced. In addition, the
rcu read lock might be released before referencing the contents.

ath_tx_complete_buf() should be fixed to check sta perhaps? Worth
looking into.

Reverting this patch because it doesn't solve the problem and introduces
memory leak by skipping buffer completion if the pointer (sta) is NULL.

Fixes: a56c14bb21 ("ath9k: fix ath_tx_process_buffer() potential null ptr dereference")
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217211801.22540-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org
History 2021-02-22 09:32:28 +02:00
arch dts: marvell: add CM3 SRAM memory to cp11x ethernet device tree 2021-02-11 14:50:23 -08:00
block block-5.11-2021-02-05 2021-02-06 14:40:27 -08:00
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crypto X.509: Fix crash caused by NULL pointer 2021-01-20 11:33:51 -08:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: xilinx_axienet: add xlnx,switch-x-sgmii attribute 2021-02-12 17:38:53 -08:00
drivers Revert "ath9k: fix ath_tx_process_buffer() potential null ptr dereference" 2021-02-22 09:32:28 +02:00
fs nilfs2: make splice write available again 2021-02-10 11:19:58 -08:00
include tcp: factorize logic into tcp_epollin_ready() 2021-02-12 17:28:26 -08:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.