ath9k: fix stale pointers potentially causing access to free'd skbs

bf->bf_next is only while buffers are chained as part of an A-MPDU
in the tx queue. When a tid queue is flushed (e.g. on tearing down
an aggregation session), frames can be enqueued again as normal
transmission, without bf_next being cleared. This can lead to the
old pointer being dereferenced again later.

This patch might fix crashes and "Failed to stop TX DMA!" messages.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index 378bd70256b2..1ffca7511fa8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ static struct ath_buf *ath_tx_get_buffer(struct ath_softc *sc)
         }
 
         bf = list_first_entry(&sc->tx.txbuf, struct ath_buf, list);
+        bf->bf_next = NULL;
         list_del(&bf->list);
 
         spin_unlock_bh(&sc->tx.txbuflock);
@@ -1774,6 +1775,7 @@ static void ath_tx_send_normal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq,
         list_add_tail(&bf->list, &bf_head);
         bf->bf_state.bf_type = 0;
 
+        bf->bf_next = NULL;
         bf->bf_lastbf = bf;
         ath_tx_fill_desc(sc, bf, txq, fi->framelen);
         ath_tx_txqaddbuf(sc, txq, &bf_head, false);