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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: change validation of scheduled scan interval values

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On 22-11-2016 11:22, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> When user-space does not provide scheduled scan plans, ie. uses the
> old scheduled scan API containing NL80211_ATTR_SCHED_SCAN_INTERVAL.
> The interval value passed by user-space is validated against
> struct wiphy::max_sched_scan_plan_interval and if it is exceeding
> it the interval is set to struct wiphy::max_sched_scan_plan_interval.
> However, when the driver does not set this limit the interval the
> interval in the request will always be zero. Hence add a check to
> see whether the driver set struct wiphy::max_sched_scan_plan_interval.
> 
> For the new API, ie. for scheduled scan plans, the interval validation
> has been simalarly adjusted to assure the limit is non-zero.

Actually turns out that max_sched_scan_plan_interval is always set in
wiphy_new_nm() which is used by all drivers so please drop this patch.

Regards,
Arend

> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index 24ab199..e621554 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -6777,7 +6777,8 @@ static int nl80211_abort_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  		if (!request->scan_plans[0].interval)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  
> -		if (request->scan_plans[0].interval >
> +		if (wiphy->max_sched_scan_plan_interval &&
> +		    request->scan_plans[0].interval >
>  		    wiphy->max_sched_scan_plan_interval)
>  			request->scan_plans[0].interval =
>  				wiphy->max_sched_scan_plan_interval;
> @@ -6801,7 +6802,10 @@ static int nl80211_abort_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  
>  		request->scan_plans[i].interval =
>  			nla_get_u32(plan[NL80211_SCHED_SCAN_PLAN_INTERVAL]);
> -		if (!request->scan_plans[i].interval ||
> +		if (!request->scan_plans[i].interval)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +
> +		if (wiphy->max_sched_scan_plan_interval &&
>  		    request->scan_plans[i].interval >
>  		    wiphy->max_sched_scan_plan_interval)
>  			return -EINVAL;
> 



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