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Subjectpull request: wireless 2013-06-19
Dave,

One more late-breaking fix in the nl80211 code, the fix for the
nl80211_fam.attrbuf race Linus ran into and analysed. Hopefully it
looks familiar... :-)

Let me know if there are problems!

John

---

The following changes since commit eb064c3b49931dc73bba59887019c7f5cb97d322:

vxlan: fix check for migration of static entry (2013-06-19 00:50:58 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless.git for-davem

for you to fetch changes up to 4067c666f2dccf56f5db5c182713e68c40d46013:

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem (2013-06-19 15:24:36 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------

Johannes Berg (1):
nl80211: fix attrbuf access race by allocating a separate one

John W. Linville (2):
Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/.../jberg/mac80211
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../linville/wireless into for-davem

net/wireless/nl80211.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index d5aed3b..b14b7e3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1564,12 +1564,17 @@ static int nl80211_dump_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev;
s64 filter_wiphy = -1;
bool split = false;
- struct nlattr **tb = nl80211_fam.attrbuf;
+ struct nlattr **tb;
int res;

+ /* will be zeroed in nlmsg_parse() */
+ tb = kmalloc(sizeof(*tb) * (NL80211_ATTR_MAX + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tb)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex);
res = nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + nl80211_fam.hdrsize,
- tb, nl80211_fam.maxattr, nl80211_policy);
+ tb, NL80211_ATTR_MAX, nl80211_policy);
if (res == 0) {
split = tb[NL80211_ATTR_SPLIT_WIPHY_DUMP];
if (tb[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY])
@@ -1583,6 +1588,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
netdev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(skb->sk), ifidx);
if (!netdev) {
mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
+ kfree(tb);
return -ENODEV;
}
if (netdev->ieee80211_ptr) {
@@ -1593,6 +1599,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
dev_put(netdev);
}
}
+ kfree(tb);

list_for_each_entry(dev, &cfg80211_rdev_list, list) {
if (!net_eq(wiphy_net(&dev->wiphy), sock_net(skb->sk)))
--
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