mac80211: fix A-MSDU packet handling with TCP retransmission

Improves local TCP throughput and fixes use-after-free bugs that could lead
to crashes.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/351-mac80211-free-skb-fraglist-before-freeing-the-skb.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/351-mac80211-free-skb-fraglist-before-freeing-the-skb.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..200e4fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/351-mac80211-free-skb-fraglist-before-freeing-the-skb.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
+Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:21:21 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: free skb fraglist before freeing the skb
+
+mac80211 uses the frag list to build AMSDU. When freeing
+the skb, it may not be really freed, since someone is still
+holding a reference to it.
+In that case, when TCP skb is being retransmitted, the
+pointer to the frag list is being reused, while the data
+in there is no longer valid.
+Since we will never get frag list from the network stack,
+as mac80211 doesn't advertise the capability, we can safely
+free and nullify it before releasing the SKB.
+
+Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
+---
+
+--- a/net/mac80211/status.c
++++ b/net/mac80211/status.c
+@@ -561,6 +561,11 @@ static void ieee80211_report_used_skb(st
+       }
+ 
+       ieee80211_led_tx(local);
++
++      if (skb_has_frag_list(skb)) {
++              kfree_skb_list(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list);
++              skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
++      }
+ }
+ 
+ /*

diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-add-NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS-hw-flag.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-add-NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS-hw-flag.patch
index c52a4f61a95f5774e222b31ce2617c72603d0d80..8183fb89b6adeb4e35aeba6fb7c1f0f20fb19cde 100644 (file)
--- a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-add-NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS-hw-flag.patch
+++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-add-NEED_ALIGNED4_SKBS-hw-flag.patch
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
        struct rcu_head rcu_head;
 --- a/net/mac80211/status.c
 +++ b/net/mac80211/status.c
        struct rcu_head rcu_head;
 --- a/net/mac80211/status.c
 +++ b/net/mac80211/status.c

-@@ -653,9 +653,22 @@ void ieee80211_tx_monitor(struct ieee802
+@@ -658,9 +658,22 @@ void ieee80211_tx_monitor(struct ieee802

        struct sk_buff *skb2;
        struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
        struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
        struct sk_buff *skb2;
        struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
        struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;