linux-kernel - [PATCH] cfg80211: regulatory: improve invalid hints checking

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Message-ID: <20250228134659.1577656-1-n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:46:57 +0300
From: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@...tech.ru>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@...tech.ru>, "Luis R. Rodriguez"
	<lrodriguez@...eros.com>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<syzbot+e10709ac3c44f3d4e800@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
	<syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>, <lvc-project@...uxtesting.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: regulatory: improve invalid hints checking

Syzbot keeps reporting an issue [1] that occurs when erroneous symbols
sent from userspace get through into user_alpha2[] via
regulatory_hint_user() call. Such invalid regulatory hints should be
rejected.

While a sanity check from commit 47caf685a685 ("cfg80211: regulatory:
reject invalid hints") looks to be enough to deter these very cases,
there is a way to get around it due to 2 reasons.

1) The way isalpha() works, symbols other than latin lower and
upper letters may be used to determine a country/domain.
For instance, greek letters will also be considered upper/lower
letters and for such characters isalpha() will return true as well.
However, ISO-3166-1 alpha2 codes should only hold latin
characters.

2) While processing a user regulatory request, between
reg_process_hint_user() and regulatory_hint_user() there happens to
be a call to queue_regulatory_request() which modifies letters in
request->alpha2[] with toupper(). This works fine for latin symbols,
less so for weird letter characters from the second part of _ctype[].

Syzbot triggers a warning in is_user_regdom_saved() by first sending
over an unexpected non-latin letter that gets malformed by toupper()
into a character that ends up failing isalpha() check.

Prevent this by enhancing is_an_alpha2() to ensure that incoming
symbols are latin letters and nothing else.

[1] Syzbot report:
------------[ cut here ]------------
Unexpected user alpha2: A�
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 964 at net/wireless/reg.c:442 is_user_regdom_saved net/wireless/reg.c:440 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 964 at net/wireless/reg.c:442 restore_alpha2 net/wireless/reg.c:3424 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 964 at net/wireless/reg.c:442 restore_regulatory_settings+0x3c0/0x1e50 net/wireless/reg.c:3516
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 964 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-syzkaller-00044-gc1e939a21eb1 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Workqueue: events_power_efficient crda_timeout_work
RIP: 0010:is_user_regdom_saved net/wireless/reg.c:440 [inline]
RIP: 0010:restore_alpha2 net/wireless/reg.c:3424 [inline]
RIP: 0010:restore_regulatory_settings+0x3c0/0x1e50 net/wireless/reg.c:3516
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 crda_timeout_work+0x27/0x50 net/wireless/reg.c:542
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa65/0x1850 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
 worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2f2/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 </TASK>

Reported-by: syzbot+e10709ac3c44f3d4e800@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e10709ac3c44f3d4e800
Fixes: 09d989d179d0 ("cfg80211: add regulatory hint disconnect support")
Cc: stable@...nel.org
Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@...tech.ru>
---
P.S. Apologies to Johannes Berg for sending the first patch
iteration in a wrong way.

 net/wireless/reg.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 2dd0533e7660..212e9561aae7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ static bool is_an_alpha2(const char *alpha2)
 {
 	if (!alpha2)
 		return false;
-	return isalpha(alpha2[0]) && isalpha(alpha2[1]);
+	return isascii(alpha2[0]) && isalpha(alpha2[0]) &&
+	       isascii(alpha2[1]) && isalpha(alpha2[1]);
 }

 static bool alpha2_equal(const char *alpha2_x, const char *alpha2_y)