FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nl80211: fix validation of mesh path nexthop" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nl80211: fix validation of mesh path nexthop" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 1fab1b89e2e8f01204a9c05a39fd0b6411a48593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:30:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: fix validation of mesh path nexthop

Mesh path nexthop should be a ethernet address, but current validation
checks against 4 byte integers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2ec600d672e74 ("nl80211/cfg80211: support for mesh, sta dumping")
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191029093003.10355-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 4453dd375de9..7b72286922f7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
 	[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] = { /* NLA_NESTED can't be empty */ },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_ID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
 				   .len = IEEE80211_MAX_MESH_ID_LEN },
-	[NL80211_ATTR_MPATH_NEXT_HOP] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[NL80211_ATTR_MPATH_NEXT_HOP] = NLA_POLICY_ETH_ADDR_COMPAT,
 
 	[NL80211_ATTR_REG_ALPHA2] = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = 2 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_REG_RULES] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },