Commit 444020f4 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg
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wifi: cfg80211: remove scan request n_channels counted_by



This reverts commit e3eac9f3 ("wifi: cfg80211: Annotate struct
cfg80211_scan_request with __counted_by").

This really has been a completely failed experiment. There were
no actual bugs found, and yet at this point we already have four
"fixes" to it, with nothing to show for but code churn, and it
never even made the code any safer.

In all of the cases that ended up getting "fixed", the structure
is also internally inconsistent after the n_channels setting as
the channel list isn't actually filled yet. You cannot scan with
such a structure, that's just wrong. In mac80211, the struct is
also reused multiple times, so initializing it once is no good.

Some previous "fixes" (e.g. one in brcm80211) are also just setting
n_channels before accessing the array, under the assumption that the
code is correct and the array can be accessed, further showing that
the whole thing is just pointless when the allocation count and use
count are not separate.

If we really wanted to fix it, we'd need to separately track the
number of channels allocated and the number of channels currently
used, but given that no bugs were found despite the numerous syzbot
reports, that'd just be a waste of time.

Remove the __counted_by() annotation. We really should also remove
a number of the n_channels settings that are setting up a structure
that's inconsistent, but that can wait.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+e834e757bd9b3d3e1251@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e834e757bd9b3d3e1251
Fixes: e3eac9f3 ("wifi: cfg80211: Annotate struct cfg80211_scan_request with __counted_by")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250714142130.9b0bbb7e1f07.I09112ccde72d445e11348fc2bef68942cb2ffc94@changeid


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 2aec790e
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