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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cfg80211: fix connect/disconnect edge cases" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Oct 30, 2017

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

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From 51e13359cd5ea34acc62c90627603352956380af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:56:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix connect/disconnect edge cases

If we try to connect while already connected/connecting, but this fails, we set ssid_len=0 but leave current_bss hanging, leading to errors.

Check all of this better, first of all ensuring that we can't try to connect to a different SSID while connected/ing; ensure that prev_bssid is set for re-association attempts even in the case of the driver supporting the connect() method, and don't reset ssid_len in the failure cases.

While at it, also reset ssid_len while disconnecting unless we were connected and expect a disconnected event, and warn on a successful connection without ssid_len being set.

Cc [email protected]
Signed-off-by Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
net/wireless/sme.c +41 -9
index 0a49b88070d0..b6533ecbf5b1 100644
@@ -522,11 +522,6 @@ static int cfg80211_sme_connect(struct wireless_dev *wdev,
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	if (wdev->current_bss) {
-		if (!prev_bssid)
-			return -EALREADY;
-		if (prev_bssid &&
-		    !ether_addr_equal(prev_bssid, wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid))
-			return -ENOTCONN;
 		cfg80211_unhold_bss(wdev->current_bss);
 		cfg80211_put_bss(wdev->wiphy, &wdev->current_bss->pub);
 		wdev->current_bss = NULL;

@@ -1063,11 +1058,35 @@ int cfg80211_connect(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 
 	ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);
 
-	if (WARN_ON(wdev->connect_keys)) {
-		kzfree(wdev->connect_keys);
-		wdev->connect_keys = NULL;
+	/*
+	 * If we have an ssid_len, we're trying to connect or are
+	 * already connected, so reject a new SSID unless it's the
+	 * same (which is the case for re-association.)
+	 */
+	if (wdev->ssid_len &&
+	    (wdev->ssid_len != connect->ssid_len ||
+	     memcmp(wdev->ssid, connect->ssid, wdev->ssid_len)))
+		return -EALREADY;
+
+	/*
+	 * If connected, reject (re-)association unless prev_bssid
+	 * matches the current BSSID.
+	 */
+	if (wdev->current_bss) {
+		if (!prev_bssid)
+			return -EALREADY;
+		if (!ether_addr_equal(prev_bssid, wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid))
+			return -ENOTCONN;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Reject if we're in the process of connecting with WEP,
+	 * this case isn't very interesting and trying to handle
+	 * it would make the code much more complex.
+	 */
+	if (wdev->connect_keys)
+		return -EINPROGRESS;
+
 	cfg80211_oper_and_ht_capa(&connect->ht_capa_mask,
 				  rdev->wiphy.ht_capa_mod_mask);
 

@@ -1118,7 +1137,12 @@ int cfg80211_connect(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 
 	if (err) {
 		wdev->connect_keys = NULL;
-		wdev->ssid_len = 0;
+		/*
+		 * This could be reassoc getting refused, don't clear
+		 * ssid_len in that case.
+		 */
+		if (!wdev->current_bss)
+			wdev->ssid_len = 0;
 		return err;
 	}
 

@@ -1145,6 +1169,14 @@ int cfg80211_disconnect(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 	else if (wdev->ssid_len)
 		err = rdev_disconnect(rdev, dev, reason);
 
+	/*
+	 * Clear ssid_len unless we actually were fully connected,
+	 * in which case cfg80211_disconnected() will take care of
+	 * this later.
+	 */
+	if (!wdev->current_bss)
+		wdev->ssid_len = 0;
+
 	return err;
 }