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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: fix HT capability attribute validation
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:27:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320308821.3950.4.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)

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

Since the NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY attribute is
used as a struct, it needs a minimum, not maximum
length. Enforce that properly. Not doing so could
potentially lead to reading after the buffer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c	2011-11-03 09:00:25.000000000 +0100
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c	2011-11-03 09:16:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -132,8 +132,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_p
 	[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_CONFIG] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORT_MESH_AUTH] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
 
-	[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
-					 .len = NL80211_HT_CAPABILITY_LEN },
+	[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY] = { .len = NL80211_HT_CAPABILITY_LEN },
 
 	[NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_SUBTYPE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_IE] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,



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