]> git.itanic.dy.fi Git - linux-stable/commit
rtl8192ce: Fix null dereference in watchdog
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:36:43 +0000 (14:36 +0100)
committerZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:02:44 +0000 (18:02 +0800)
commit4b7f15c26a453b1aa19965d515476700b8faaa0e
tree4dfb3adb411b2c25a4f363f2c6e82ecd2039032c
parent50f1b3d5a47088a67176ae72ffefda3e25873cf8
rtl8192ce: Fix null dereference in watchdog

Dmitry Semyonov reported that after upgrading from 3.2.54 to
3.2.57 the rtl8192ce driver will crash when its interface is brought
up.  The oops message shows:

[ 1833.611397] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
[ 1833.611455] IP: [<ffffffffa0410c6a>] rtl92ce_update_hal_rate_tbl+0x29/0x4db [rtl8192ce]
...
[ 1833.613326] Call Trace:
[ 1833.613346]  [<ffffffffa02ad9c6>] ? rtl92c_dm_watchdog+0xd0b/0xec9 [rtl8192c_common]
[ 1833.613391]  [<ffffffff8105b5cf>] ? process_one_work+0x161/0x269
[ 1833.613425]  [<ffffffff8105c598>] ? worker_thread+0xc2/0x145
[ 1833.613458]  [<ffffffff8105c4d6>] ? manage_workers.isra.25+0x15b/0x15b
[ 1833.613496]  [<ffffffff8105f6d9>] ? kthread+0x76/0x7e
[ 1833.613527]  [<ffffffff81356b74>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 1833.613563]  [<ffffffff8105f663>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x139/0x139
[ 1833.613598]  [<ffffffff81356b70>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

Disassembly of rtl92ce_update_hal_rate_tbl() shows that the 'sta'
parameter was null.  None of the changes to the rtlwifi family between
3.2.54 and 3.2.57 seem to directly cause this, and reverting commit
f78bccd79ba3 ('rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix too long disable of IRQs')
doesn't fix it.

rtl92c_dm_watchdog() calls rtl92ce_update_hal_rate_tbl() via
rtl92c_dm_refresh_rate_adaptive_mask(), which does not appear in the
call trace as it was inlined.  That function has been completely
removed upstream which may explain why this crash wasn't seen there.

I'm not sure that it is sensible to completely remove
rtl92c_dm_refresh_rate_adaptive_mask() without making other
compensating changes elsewhere, so try to work around this for 3.2 by
checking for a null pointer in rtl92c_dm_refresh_rate_adaptive_mask()
and then skipping the call to rtl92ce_update_hal_rate_tbl().

References: https://bugs.debian.org/745137
References: https://bugs.debian.org/745462
Reported-by: Dmitry Semyonov <linulin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>
Cc: Satoshi IWAMOTO <satoshi.iwamoto@nifty.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/dm_common.c