mac80211: fix use-after-free
commit 8c0c709e Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Nov 25 17:46:15 2009 +0100 mac80211: move cmntr flag out of rx flags moved the CMTR flag into the skb's status, and in doing so introduced a use-after-free -- when the skb has been handed to cooked monitors the status setting will touch now invalid memory. Additionally, moving it there has effectively discarded the optimisation -- since the bit is only ever set on freed SKBs, and those were a copy, it could never be checked. For the current release, fixing this properly is a bit too involved, so let's just remove the problematic code and leave userspace with one copy of each frame for each virtual interface. Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.33+] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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