Re: [REGRESSION] Patch broke WPA auth: Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: cfg80211: Fix use after free for wext

[Hans de Goede]

Hi Hector,

On 3/11/23 10:55, Hector Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This broke WPA auth entirely on brcmfmac (in offload mode) and probably
> others, including on stable 6.2.3 and 6.3-rc1 (tested with iwd). Please
> revert or fix. Notes below.
> 
> Reported-by: Ilya <me@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> #regzbot introduced: 015b8cc5e7c4d7
> #regzbot monitor:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20230124141856.356646-1-alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

I can confirm this bug, I was seeing broken wifi on brcmfmac with 6.3-rc1
and I was about to start a git bisect for this this morning when I saw
this email.

Reverting 015b8cc5e7c4d7 fixes the broken wifi. Hector, thank you, you
just saved me from a bisect on somewhat slow hardware :)

Regards,

Hans






> 
> On 24/01/2023 23.18, Alexander Wetzel wrote:
>> Key information in wext.connect is not reset on (re)connect and can hold
>> data from a previous connection.
>>
>> Reset key data to avoid that drivers or mac80211 incorrectly detect a
>> WEP connection request and access the freed or already reused memory.
>>
>> Additionally optimize cfg80211_sme_connect() and avoid an useless
>> schedule of conn_work.
>>
>> Fixes: fffd0934b939 ("cfg80211: rework key operation")
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c80f04d2-8159-a02a-9287-26e5ec838826@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> V2 changes:
>> - updated comment
>> - reset more key data
>>
>> ---
>>  net/wireless/sme.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/wireless/sme.c b/net/wireless/sme.c
>> index 123248b2c0be..0cc841c0c59b 100644
>> --- a/net/wireless/sme.c
>> +++ b/net/wireless/sme.c
> [snip]
>> @@ -1464,6 +1476,15 @@ int cfg80211_connect(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
> 
> This if branch only fires if the connection is WEP.
> 
>>  	} else {
>>  		if (WARN_ON(connkeys))
>>  			return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +		/* connect can point to wdev->wext.connect which
>> +		 * can hold key data from a previous connection
>> +		 */
>> +		connect->key = NULL;
>> +		connect->key_len = 0;
>> +		connect->key_idx = 0;
> 
> And these are indeed only used by WEP.
> 
>> +		connect->crypto.cipher_group = 0;
>> +		connect->crypto.n_ciphers_pairwise = 0;
> 
> But here you're killing the info that is used for *other* auth modes too
> if !WEP, breaking WPA and everything else.
> 
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	wdev->connect_keys = connkeys;
> 
> - Hector
>