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Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: protect firmware from excessive WoW pattern length

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On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:15 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> Don't accept WoW patterns longer than supported by firmware.
> 
> Reported-by: Haijun Jin <nhjin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <c_tpeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
> index bd003fe..ffa18f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
> @@ -1876,6 +1876,9 @@ static int ath6kl_wow_usr(struct ath6kl *ar, struct ath6kl_vif *vif,
>  	/* Configure the patterns that we received from the user. */
>  	for (i = 0; i < wow->n_patterns; i++) {
>  
> +		if (wow->patterns[i].pattern_len > WOW_MASK_SIZE)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +

No objection, but doesn't nl80211 already validate that (assuming you
give the right pattern_max_len, of course)?

johannes

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