From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:42:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: flush queues on STA removal When we remove a station, we first make it unreachable, then we (must) remove its keys, and then remove the station itself. Depending on the hardware design, if we have hardware crypto at all, frames still sitting on hardware queues may then be transmitted without a valid key, possibly unencrypted or with a fixed key. Fix this by flushing the queues when removing stations so this cannot happen. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Greenman, Gregory --- --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -1271,6 +1271,14 @@ static void __sta_info_destroy_part2(str WARN_ON_ONCE(ret); } + /* Flush queues before removing keys, as that might remove them + * from hardware, and then depending on the offload method, any + * frames sitting on hardware queues might be sent out without + * any encryption at all. + */ + if (local->ops->set_key) + ieee80211_flush_queues(local, sta->sdata, false); + /* now keys can no longer be reached */ ieee80211_free_sta_keys(local, sta);