linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] nl80211/cfg80211: fix potential infinite loop

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Message-Id: <20201029222407.390218-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:24:07 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Tova Mussai <tova.mussai@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] nl80211/cfg80211: fix potential infinite loop

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The for-loop iterates with a u8 loop counter and compares this
with the loop upper limit of request->n_ssids which is an int type.
There is a potential infinite loop if n_ssids is larger than the
u8 loop counter, so fix this by making the loop counter an int.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Infinite loop")
Fixes: c8cb5b854b40 ("nl80211/cfg80211: support 6 GHz scanning")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/wireless/scan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 8d0e49c46db3..3409f37d838b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static  void cfg80211_scan_req_add_chan(struct cfg80211_scan_request *request,
 static bool cfg80211_find_ssid_match(struct cfg80211_colocated_ap *ap,
 				     struct cfg80211_scan_request *request)
 {
-	u8 i;
+	int i;
 	u32 s_ssid;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < request->n_ssids; i++) {
-- 
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