This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix uninitialized variables
to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
From 43c85d770db80cb135f576f8fde6ff1a08e707a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenli Looi wlooi@ucalgary.ca Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 23:46:20 -0700 Subject: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix uninitialized variables
The sinfo.pertid and sinfo.generation variables are not initialized and it causes a crash when we use this as a wireless access point.
[ 456.873025] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 456.878198] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3968! [ 456.882680] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
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[ 457.271004] Backtrace: [ 457.273733] [<c02b7ee4>] (kfree) from [<c0e2a470>] (nl80211_send_station+0x954/0xfc4) [ 457.282481] r9:eccca0c0 r8:e8edfec0 r7:00000000 r6:00000011 r5:e80a9480 r4:e8edfe00 [ 457.291132] [<c0e29b1c>] (nl80211_send_station) from [<c0e2b18c>] (cfg80211_new_sta+0x90/0x1cc) [ 457.300850] r10:e80a9480 r9:e8edfe00 r8:ea678cca r7:00000a20 r6:00000000 r5:ec46d000 [ 457.309586] r4:ec46d9e0 [ 457.312433] [<c0e2b0fc>] (cfg80211_new_sta) from [<bf086684>] (rtw_cfg80211_indicate_sta_assoc+0x80/0x9c [r8723bs]) [ 457.324095] r10:00009930 r9:e85b9d80 r8:bf091050 r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:0000001c [ 457.332831] r4:c1606788 [ 457.335692] [<bf086604>] (rtw_cfg80211_indicate_sta_assoc [r8723bs]) from [<bf03df38>] (rtw_stassoc_event_callback+0x1c8/0x1d4 [r8723bs]) [ 457.349489] r7:ea678cc0 r6:000000a1 r5:f1225f84 r4:f086b000 [ 457.355845] [<bf03dd70>] (rtw_stassoc_event_callback [r8723bs]) from [<bf048e4c>] (mlme_evt_hdl+0x8c/0xb4 [r8723bs]) [ 457.367601] r7:c1604900 r6:f086c4b8 r5:00000000 r4:f086c000 [ 457.373959] [<bf048dc0>] (mlme_evt_hdl [r8723bs]) from [<bf03693c>] (rtw_cmd_thread+0x198/0x3d8 [r8723bs]) [ 457.384744] r5:f086e000 r4:f086c000 [ 457.388754] [<bf0367a4>] (rtw_cmd_thread [r8723bs]) from [<c014a214>] (kthread+0x170/0x174) [ 457.398083] r10:ed7a57e8 r9:bf0367a4 r8:f086b000 r7:e8ede000 r6:00000000 r5:e9975200 [ 457.406828] r4:e8369900 [ 457.409653] [<c014a0a4>] (kthread) from [<c01010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c) [ 457.417718] Exception stack(0xe8edffb0 to 0xe8edfff8) [ 457.423356] ffa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 457.432492] ffc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 457.441618] ffe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 [ 457.449006] r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:00000000 r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:c014a0a4 [ 457.457750] r4:e9975200 [ 457.460574] Code: 1a000003 e5953004 e3130001 1a000000 (e7f001f2) [ 457.467381] ---[ end trace 4acbc8c15e9e6aa7 ]---
Link: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/14727-wifi-ap-kernel-bug-in-kernel-5444/ Fixes: 8689c051a201 ("cfg80211: dynamically allocate per-tid stats for station info") Fixes: f5ea9120be2e ("nl80211: add generation number to all dumps") Signed-off-by: Wenli Looi wlooi@ucalgary.ca Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608064620.74059-1-wlooi@ucalgary.ca Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c index a6d731e959a2..ffa1cf4f9a82 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ void rtw_cfg80211_indicate_sta_assoc(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *pmgmt_frame, struct net_device *ndev = padapter->pnetdev;
{ - struct station_info sinfo; + struct station_info sinfo = {}; u8 ie_offset; if (GetFrameSubType(pmgmt_frame) == WIFI_ASSOCREQ) ie_offset = _ASOCREQ_IE_OFFSET_;