[PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

Subsystems: broadcom brcm80211 ieee802.11 wireless drivers, the rest

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[PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Nicolas Iooss <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-05 20:35:23

The struct cfg80211_pmksa defines its bssid field as:

    const u8 *bssid;

contrary to struct brcmf_pmksa, which uses:

    u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];

Therefore in brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(), &pmksa->bssid takes the address
of this field (of type u8**), not the one of its content (which would be
u8*).  Remove the & operator to make brcmf_dbg("%pM") and memcmp()
behave as expected.

This bug have been found using a custom static checker (which checks the
usage of %p... attributes at build time).  It has been introduced in
commit 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code"),
which replaced pmksa->bssid by &pmksa->bssid while refactoring the code,
without modifying struct cfg80211_pmksa definition.

Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code")
Cc: stable@ger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <redacted>
---

scripts/checkpatch.pl reports a warning: "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or
ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()".  Because some files in
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/ still use memcmp()
to compare addresses and because I do not know whether pmksa->bssid is
always aligned, I did not follow this warning.

 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2628d5e12c64..aceab77cd95a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
 	if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid);
+	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid);
 
 	npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk);
 	for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++)
-		if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+		if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
 			break;
 
 	if ((npmk > 0) && (i < npmk)) {
-- 
2.9.2

Re: [PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Nicolas Iooss <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-22 13:04:05

Hello,

After I sent the following patch a few weeks ago, I have not received
any feedback. Could you please review it and tell me what I may have
done wrong?

Thanks,
Nicolas

On 05/08/16 22:34, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
quoted hunk
The struct cfg80211_pmksa defines its bssid field as:

    const u8 *bssid;

contrary to struct brcmf_pmksa, which uses:

    u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];

Therefore in brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(), &pmksa->bssid takes the address
of this field (of type u8**), not the one of its content (which would be
u8*).  Remove the & operator to make brcmf_dbg("%pM") and memcmp()
behave as expected.

This bug have been found using a custom static checker (which checks the
usage of %p... attributes at build time).  It has been introduced in
commit 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code"),
which replaced pmksa->bssid by &pmksa->bssid while refactoring the code,
without modifying struct cfg80211_pmksa definition.

Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code")
Cc: stable@ger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <redacted>
---

scripts/checkpatch.pl reports a warning: "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or
ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()".  Because some files in
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/ still use memcmp()
to compare addresses and because I do not know whether pmksa->bssid is
always aligned, I did not follow this warning.

 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2628d5e12c64..aceab77cd95a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
 	if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid);
+	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid);
 
 	npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk);
 	for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++)
-		if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+		if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
 			break;
 
 	if ((npmk > 0) && (i < npmk)) {

Re: [PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-08-22 13:10:23

On 22 August 2016 at 15:03, Nicolas Iooss [off-list ref] wrote:
After I sent the following patch a few weeks ago, I have not received
any feedback. Could you please review it and tell me what I may have
done wrong?
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches#checking_state_of_patches_from_patchwork
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9265733/

Re: [PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Date: 2016-08-22 19:38:38

On 22-8-2016 15:03, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
Hello,

After I sent the following patch a few weeks ago, I have not received
any feedback. Could you please review it and tell me what I may have
done wrong?
Nothing. People went on vacation :-)
Thanks,
Nicolas

On 05/08/16 22:34, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
quoted
The struct cfg80211_pmksa defines its bssid field as:

    const u8 *bssid;

contrary to struct brcmf_pmksa, which uses:

    u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];

Therefore in brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(), &pmksa->bssid takes the address
of this field (of type u8**), not the one of its content (which would be
u8*).  Remove the & operator to make brcmf_dbg("%pM") and memcmp()
behave as expected.

This bug have been found using a custom static checker (which checks the
usage of %p... attributes at build time).  It has been introduced in
commit 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code"),
which replaced pmksa->bssid by &pmksa->bssid while refactoring the code,
without modifying struct cfg80211_pmksa definition.

Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code")
Cc: stable@ger.kernel.org
Ah, so you did something wrong after all :-p. The email address should
be 'stable@vger.kernel.org'.
quoted
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <redacted>
---

scripts/checkpatch.pl reports a warning: "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or
ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()".  Because some files in
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/ still use memcmp()
to compare addresses and because I do not know whether pmksa->bssid is
always aligned, I did not follow this warning.
As most of this is done in slow path, I prefer memcmp() as I do not want
to check alignment for minimal performance gain.
quoted
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2628d5e12c64..aceab77cd95a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
 	if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid);
+	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid);
 
 	npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk);
 	for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++)
-		if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+		if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
I find '&pmk[i].bssid' confusing so maybe you could change it to
'&pmk[i].bssid[0]' or 'pmk[i].bssid' as I think these two are
essentially the same.

Regards,
Arend
quoted
 			break;
 
 	if ((npmk > 0) && (i < npmk)) {

Re: [PATCH 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Nicolas Iooss <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-23 09:30:56

On 22/08/16 21:38, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
On 22-8-2016 15:03, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
quoted
On 05/08/16 22:34, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
[...]
quoted
quoted
Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code")
Cc: stable-q7rQbLoQdy39qxiX1TGQuw@public.gmane.org
Ah, so you did something wrong after all :-p. The email address should
be 'stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org'.
Thanks for spotting this! I'll fix this address.
quoted
quoted
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <redacted>
---

scripts/checkpatch.pl reports a warning: "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or
ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()".  Because some files in
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/ still use memcmp()
to compare addresses and because I do not know whether pmksa->bssid is
always aligned, I did not follow this warning.
As most of this is done in slow path, I prefer memcmp() as I do not want
to check alignment for minimal performance gain.
OK.
quoted
quoted
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2628d5e12c64..aceab77cd95a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
 	if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid);
+	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid);
 
 	npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk);
 	for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++)
-		if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+		if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
I find '&pmk[i].bssid' confusing so maybe you could change it to
'&pmk[i].bssid[0]' or 'pmk[i].bssid' as I think these two are
essentially the same.
I agree the three ways of writing this share the same meaning. I'll send
a v2 with 'pmk[i].bssid'.
Regards,
Arend
Thanks for your review!
Nicolas

[PATCH v2 1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Nicolas Iooss <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-23 09:42:08

The struct cfg80211_pmksa defines its bssid field as:

    const u8 *bssid;

contrary to struct brcmf_pmksa, which uses:

    u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];

Therefore in brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(), &pmksa->bssid takes the address
of this field (of type u8**), not the one of its content (which would be
u8*).  Remove the & operator to make brcmf_dbg("%pM") and memcmp()
behave as expected.

This bug have been found using a custom static checker (which checks the
usage of %p... attributes at build time).  It has been introduced in
commit 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code"),
which replaced pmksa->bssid by &pmksa->bssid while refactoring the code,
without modifying struct cfg80211_pmksa definition.

Replace &pmk[i].bssid with pmk[i].bssid too to make the code clearer,
this change does not affect the semantic.

Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2628d5e12c64..201a98016142 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
 	if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid);
+	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid);
 
 	npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk);
 	for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++)
-		if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+		if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
 			break;
 
 	if ((npmk > 0) && (i < npmk)) {
-- 
2.9.3

Re: [v2,1/1] brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Kalle Valo <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-03 17:02:24

Nicolas Iooss [off-list ref] wrote:
The struct cfg80211_pmksa defines its bssid field as:

    const u8 *bssid;

contrary to struct brcmf_pmksa, which uses:

    u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];

Therefore in brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(), &pmksa->bssid takes the address
of this field (of type u8**), not the one of its content (which would be
u8*).  Remove the & operator to make brcmf_dbg("%pM") and memcmp()
behave as expected.

This bug have been found using a custom static checker (which checks the
usage of %p... attributes at build time).  It has been introduced in
commit 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code"),
which replaced pmksa->bssid by &pmksa->bssid while refactoring the code,
without modifying struct cfg80211_pmksa definition.

Replace &pmk[i].bssid with pmk[i].bssid too to make the code clearer,
this change does not affect the semantic.

Fixes: 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <redacted>
Thanks, 1 patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:

7703773ef1d8 brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

-- 
Sent by pwcli
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9295351/
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