linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.5 108/170] nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_CHANNEL

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Message-Id: <20200331085435.660024649@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:58:42 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.5 108/170] nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_CHANNEL_WIDTH attribute type

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

commit 0016d3201753b59f3ae84b868fe66c86ad256f19 upstream.

The new opmode notification used this attribute with a u8, when
it's documented as a u32 and indeed used in userspace as such,
it just happens to work on little-endian systems since userspace
isn't doing any strict size validation, and the u8 goes into the
lower byte. Fix this.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 466b9936bf93 ("cfg80211: Add support to notify station's opmode change to userspace")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200325090531.be124f0a11c7.Iedbf4e197a85471ebd729b186d5365c0343bf7a8@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -16416,7 +16416,7 @@ void cfg80211_sta_opmode_change_notify(s
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
 	if ((sta_opmode->changed & STA_OPMODE_MAX_BW_CHANGED) &&
-	    nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_CHANNEL_WIDTH, sta_opmode->bw))
+	    nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_CHANNEL_WIDTH, sta_opmode->bw))
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
 	if ((sta_opmode->changed & STA_OPMODE_N_SS_CHANGED) &&