linux-hardening - [PATCH v2] nl80211: prefer struct

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Date:   Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:55:32 +0200
From:   Len Baker <len.baker@....com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Len Baker <len.baker@....com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] nl80211: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.

So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() functions.

Also, take the opportunity to refactor the memcpy() call to use the
flex_array_size() helper.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed
manually.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@....com>
---
Changelog v1 -> v2
- Rebase against v5.15-rc2
- Remove the unnecessary "size" variable (Gustavo A. R. Silva).
- Update the commit changelog to inform that this code was detected
  using a Coccinelle script (Gustavo A. R. Silva).

 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index bf7cd4752547..fa7ff61c5b07 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -11767,8 +11767,8 @@ static int nl80211_set_cqm_rssi(struct genl_info *info,
 	if (n_thresholds) {
 		struct cfg80211_cqm_config *cqm_config;

-		cqm_config = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cfg80211_cqm_config) +
-				     n_thresholds * sizeof(s32), GFP_KERNEL);
+		cqm_config = kzalloc(struct_size(cqm_config, rssi_thresholds,
+						 n_thresholds), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!cqm_config) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto unlock;
@@ -11777,7 +11777,8 @@ static int nl80211_set_cqm_rssi(struct genl_info *info,
 		cqm_config->rssi_hyst = hysteresis;
 		cqm_config->n_rssi_thresholds = n_thresholds;
 		memcpy(cqm_config->rssi_thresholds, thresholds,
-		       n_thresholds * sizeof(s32));
+		       flex_array_size(cqm_config, rssi_thresholds,
+				       n_thresholds));

 		wdev->cqm_config = cqm_config;
 	}
@@ -15081,9 +15082,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_sar_specs(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	if (specs > rdev->wiphy.sar_capa->num_freq_ranges)
 		return -EINVAL;

-	sar_spec = kzalloc(sizeof(*sar_spec) +
-			   specs * sizeof(struct cfg80211_sar_sub_specs),
-			   GFP_KERNEL);
+	sar_spec = kzalloc(struct_size(sar_spec, sub_specs, specs), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sar_spec)
 		return -ENOMEM;

--
2.25.1