[32/80] nl80211: fix MAC address validation

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Dec 07 2011 - 11:17:06 EST


3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eliad Peller <eliad@xxxxxxxxxx>

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 <eliad@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_p
[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,


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