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Message-ID: <202410281644.77B7BEF8E@keescook>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:44:58 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc: vvvvvv@...gle.com, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: nl80211: fix bounds checker error in
nl80211_parse_sched_scan
On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 04:54:43PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>
>
> On 28/10/24 16:18, Aleksei Vetrov via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Aleksei Vetrov <vvvvvv@...gle.com>
> >
> > The channels array in the cfg80211_scan_request has a __counted_by
> > attribute attached to it, which points to the n_channels variable. This
> > attribute is used in bounds checking, and if it is not set before the
> > array is filled, then the bounds sanitizer will issue a warning or a
> > kernel panic if CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP is set.
> >
> > This patch sets the size of allocated memory as the initial value for
> > n_channels. It is updated with the actual number of added elements after
> > the array is filled.
> >
>
> This should include the following tag (and probably CC stable):
>
> Fixes: aa4ec06c455d ("wifi: cfg80211: use __counted_by where appropriate")
Agreed.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
-Kees
>
> Thanks
> --
> Gustavo
>
> > Signed-off-by: Aleksei Vetrov <vvvvvv@...gle.com>
> > ---
> > net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> > index d7d099f7118ab5d5c745905abdea85d246c2b7b2..9b1b9dc5a7eb2a864da7b0212bc6a156b7757a9d 100644
> > --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> > +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> > @@ -9776,6 +9776,7 @@ nl80211_parse_sched_scan(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
> > request = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!request)
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > + request->n_channels = n_channels;
> > if (n_ssids)
> > request->ssids = (void *)request +
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: 81983758430957d9a5cb3333fe324fd70cf63e7e
> > change-id: 20241028-nl80211_parse_sched_scan-bounds-checker-fix-c5842f41b863
> >
> > Best regards,
>
--
Kees Cook
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