From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20111207165601.267510237@clark.kroah.org> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:54:43 -0800 From: Greg KH To: , Cc: , , , Eliad Peller , "John W. Linville" Subject: [10/27] nl80211: fix MAC address validation In-Reply-To: <20111207165611.GA19872@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eliad Peller commit e007b857e88097c96c45620bf3b04a4e309053d1 upstream. MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which might result in reading beyond the buffer. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ static struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[ [NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, [NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ-1 }, - [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN }, - [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, [NL80211_ATTR_KEY] = { .type = NLA_NESTED, }, [NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,