The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for
radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace:
...
[67607.676067] [<
c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
[67607.676067] [<
c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0
[67607.676067] [<
f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<
f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<
f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<
f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw]
[67607.676067] [<
c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0
...
This bug was found by VittGam.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
} else
len = src->len;
- dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr) + sizeof(u16)*2, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!dst)
continue;