# \[PATCH\] wireless: hostap: Fix a use after free in hostap\_80211\_rx

- Subsystems: P54 WIRELESS DRIVER, THE REST
- Maintainers: Christian Lamparter, Linus Torvalds
- List: netdev
- 2 messages, 2 authors
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/03/6319482/t

## \[PATCH\] wireless: hostap: Fix a use after free in hostap\_80211\_rx

- From: Lv Yunlong \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-03-29 11:01:25 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/03/6319482.md

```text
Function hostap_80211_rx() calls prism2_rx_80211(..,skb,..). In
prism2_rx_80211, i found that the skb could be freed by dev_kfree_skb_any(skb)
and return 0. Also could be freed by netif_rx(skb) when netif_rx return
NET_RX_DROP.

But after called the prism2_rx_80211(..,skb,..), the skb is used by skb->len.

As the new skb->len is returned by prism2_rx_80211(), my patch uses a variable
len to repalce skb->len. According to another useage of prism2_rx_80211 in
monitor_rx().

Signed-off-by: Lv Yunlong <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
index 61be822f90b5..a45ee7b35533 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c
@@ -1016,10 +1016,10 @@ void hostap_80211_rx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			if (local->hostapd && local->apdev) {
 				/* Send IEEE 802.1X frames to the user
 				 * space daemon for processing */
-				prism2_rx_80211(local->apdev, skb, rx_stats,
+				int len = prism2_rx_80211(local->apdev, skb, rx_stats,
 						PRISM2_RX_MGMT);
 				local->apdevstats.rx_packets++;
-				local->apdevstats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
+				local->apdevstats.rx_bytes += len;
 				goto rx_exit;
 			}
 		} else if (!frame_authorized) {
-- 
2.25.1


```

## Re: \[PATCH\] wireless: hostap: Fix a use after free in hostap\_80211\_rx

- From: Kalle Valo \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-06-24 16:43:08 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/06/1425117.md

```text
Lv Yunlong [ref] wrote:

> Function hostap_80211_rx() calls prism2_rx_80211(..,skb,..). In
> prism2_rx_80211, i found that the skb could be freed by dev_kfree_skb_any(skb)
> and return 0. Also could be freed by netif_rx(skb) when netif_rx return
> NET_RX_DROP.
> 
> But after called the prism2_rx_80211(..,skb,..), the skb is used by skb->len.
> 
> As the new skb->len is returned by prism2_rx_80211(), my patch uses a variable
> len to repalce skb->len. According to another useage of prism2_rx_80211 in
> monitor_rx().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lv Yunlong <redacted>

Can someone help with reviewing the patch?

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210329110021.7497-1-lyl2019@mail.ustc.edu.cn/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

```