linux-kernel - [10/27] nl80211: fix MAC address validation

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Message-Id: <20111207165601.267510237@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:54:43 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [10/27] nl80211: fix MAC address validation

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>

commit e007b857e88097c96c45620bf3b04a4e309053d1 upstream.

MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current
policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which
might result in reading beyond the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ static struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[
 	[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ-1 },
 
-	[NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN },
-	[NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN },
+	[NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
+	[NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
 
 	[NL80211_ATTR_KEY] = { .type = NLA_NESTED, },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,


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