[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "mac80211: free management frame keys when removing station" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jan 7 10:31:22 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mac80211: free management frame keys when removing station

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6be1728ee2f14dae7ea1d0fe26490c875cc77e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:55:49 +0100
Subject: mac80211: free management frame keys when removing station

commit 28a9bc68124c319b2b3dc861e80828a8865fd1ba upstream.

When writing the code to allow per-station GTKs, I neglected to
take into account the management frame keys (index 4 and 5) when
freeing the station and only added code to free the first four
data frame keys.

Fix this by iterating the array of keys over the right length.

Fixes: e31b82136d1a ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKs")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/key.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c
index 16d97f044a20..947daa9d3346 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/key.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ void ieee80211_free_sta_keys(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 	int i;

 	mutex_lock(&local->key_mtx);
-	for (i = 0; i < NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sta->gtk); i++) {
 		key = key_mtx_dereference(local, sta->gtk[i]);
 		if (!key)
 			continue;
--
2.1.4





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