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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+49d4cab497c2142ee170@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mac80211: cfg: enforce sanity checks for key_index in ieee80211_del_key()
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:56:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2007533d7d6466fc5e6b588df148238046e25b4c.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a122ca3c-6b1b-3d03-08e3-ac1906ab7389@gmail.com> (sfid-20201201_134519_457943_AF72D8E2)

On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 18:15 +0530, Anant Thazhemadam wrote:
> 
> cfg80211_supported_cipher_suite(&rdev->wiphy, params->cipher) returned
> false, and thus it worked for the syzbot reproducer.
> Would it be a safer idea to enforce the conditions that I initially put (in
> ieee80211_del_key()) directly in cfg80211_validate_key_settings() itself - by
> updating max_key_index, and checking accordingly?

Yes, I think so. But similarly to cfg80211_validate_key_settings() it
should look at the device capabilities (beacon protection, etc.)

Thanks!
johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-01  9:56 [PATCH] net: mac80211: cfg: enforce sanity checks for key_index in ieee80211_del_key() Anant Thazhemadam
2020-12-01 10:00 ` Johannes Berg
2020-12-01 11:56   ` Anant Thazhemadam
2020-12-01 12:06     ` Johannes Berg
2020-12-01 12:45       ` Anant Thazhemadam
2020-12-01 12:56         ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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