This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for add llsec seclevel
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ieee802154-forbid-monitor-for-add-llsec-seclevel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit da1a833fd87c4d3badc800717146b2c4d4ae72fc
Author: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Apr 4 20:30:52 2021 -0400
net: ieee802154: forbid monitor for add llsec seclevel
[ Upstream commit 9ec87e322428d4734ac647d1a8e507434086993d ]
This patch forbids to add llsec seclevel for monitor interfaces which we
don't support yet. Otherwise we will access llsec mib which isn't
initialized for monitors.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405003054.256017-14-aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
index f07a3027d66c..b2ff2f7329c3 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
@@ -2103,6 +2103,9 @@ static int nl802154_add_llsec_seclevel(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct wpan_dev *wpan_dev = dev->ieee802154_ptr;
struct ieee802154_llsec_seclevel sl;
+ if (wpan_dev->iftype == NL802154_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
if (llsec_parse_seclevel(info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SEC_LEVEL],
&sl) < 0)
return -EINVAL;
