netdev - [PATCH] wireless: wext: allocate space for NULL-termination for 32byte SSIDs

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Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:47:30 +0800
From:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>, Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@...mfeld.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] wireless: wext: allocate space for NULL-termination for 32byte SSIDs

We've experienced a long standing bug when quickly switching from
ad-hoc to managed mode on a hardware using a Libertas chipset.

The effect is that after a number of mode transistions (sometimes as few
as two sufficed), the kernel will oops at very strange locations, mostly
in something like __kmem_alloc().

While the root cause turned out to be an issue with the wpa-supplicant
which feeds the kernel driver with garbage, this occasion pointed out a
bug in the wireless wext core when SSIDs with 32 byte lengths are passed
from userspace. In this case, the string is not properly NULL-terminated
which causes some other part to corrupt memory.

(In the particular case I observed, an SIOCSIWESSID was issued with
 bogus data in iwp->pointer but iwp->length=32).

I admitedly couldn't find where the actual corruption itself happens,
but with this trivial fix, I can't reproduce the bug anymore.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc: Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@...mfeld.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: stable@...nel.org
---
 net/wireless/wext.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
 net/wireless/wext-core.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 5e1656b..3d8f4b0 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -759,8 +759,8 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd,
 		}
 	}

-	/* kzalloc() ensures NULL-termination for essid_compat. */
-	extra = kzalloc(extra_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	/* kzalloc() +1 ensures NULL-termination for essid_compat. */
+	extra = kzalloc(extra_size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!extra)
 		return -ENOMEM;

-- 
1.6.3.3

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