mac80211: fix off-channel mgmt-tx uninitialized variable usage

In the last change here, I neglected to update the cookie in one code
path: when a mgmt-tx has no real cookie sent to userspace as it doesn't
wait for a response, but is off-channel. The original code used the SKB
pointer as the cookie and always assigned the cookie to the TX SKB in
ieee80211_start_roc_work(), but my change turned this around and made
the code rely on a valid cookie being passed in.

Unfortunately, the off-channel no-wait TX path wasn't assigning one at
all, resulting in an uninitialized stack value being used. This wasn't
handed back to userspace as a cookie (since in the no-wait case there
isn't a cookie), but it was tested for non-zero to distinguish between
mgmt-tx and off-channel.

Fix this by assigning a dummy non-zero cookie unconditionally, and get
rid of a misleading comment and some dead code while at it. I'll clean
up the ACK SKB handling separately later.

Fixes: 3b79af973cf4 ("mac80211: stop using pointers as userspace cookies")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index c2bd1b6..da471ee 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -3454,8 +3454,12 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
                        goto out_unlock;
                }
        } else {
-               /* for cookie below */
-               ack_skb = skb;
+               /* Assign a dummy non-zero cookie, it's not sent to
+                * userspace in this case but we rely on its value
+                * internally in the need_offchan case to distinguish
+                * mgmt-tx from remain-on-channel.
+                */
+               *cookie = 0xffffffff;
        }
 
        if (!need_offchan) {