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Re: [PATCH 03/11] nl80211: copy the length of dst of src in nl80211_notify_radar_detection()

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On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 17:38 +0200, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It is generally safer to copy the length of the destination instead of
> the length of the source, because if the sizes don't match, it's
> usually better to leak some data from the source than to write data
> out of bounds in the destination.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index 25a9e3b5c154..239be0e2f9e1 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -8061,7 +8061,7 @@ static int nl80211_notify_radar_detection(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>  	cfg80211_sched_dfs_chan_update(rdev);
>  
> -	memcpy(&rdev->radar_chandef, &chandef, sizeof(chandef));
> +	memcpy(&rdev->radar_chandef, &chandef, sizeof(rdev->radar_chandef));

I think we're better off doing a struct assignment here.

johannes




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