This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: mesh: fix HE operation element length check
to the 5.14-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:
mac80211-mesh-fix-he-operation-element-length-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 636707e593120c9fa35f6a908c0d052f6154910d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:11:20 +0200
Subject: mac80211: mesh: fix HE operation element length check
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 636707e593120c9fa35f6a908c0d052f6154910d upstream.
The length check here was bad, if the length doesn't at
least include the length of the fixed part, we cannot
call ieee80211_he_oper_size() to determine the total.
Fix this, and convert to cfg80211_find_ext_elem() while
at it.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 70debba3ab7d ("mac80211: save HE oper info in BSS config for mesh")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210930131120.b0f940976c56.I954e1be55e9f87cc303165bff5c906afe1e54648@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/mesh.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ ieee80211_mesh_update_bss_params(struct
u8 *ie, u8 ie_len)
{
struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
- const u8 *cap;
+ const struct element *cap;
const struct ieee80211_he_operation *he_oper = NULL;
sband = ieee80211_get_sband(sdata);
@@ -687,9 +687,10 @@ ieee80211_mesh_update_bss_params(struct
sdata->vif.bss_conf.he_support = true;
- cap = cfg80211_find_ext_ie(WLAN_EID_EXT_HE_OPERATION, ie, ie_len);
- if (cap && cap[1] >= ieee80211_he_oper_size(&cap[3]))
- he_oper = (void *)(cap + 3);
+ cap = cfg80211_find_ext_elem(WLAN_EID_EXT_HE_OPERATION, ie, ie_len);
+ if (cap && cap->datalen >= 1 + sizeof(*he_oper) &&
+ cap->datalen >= 1 + ieee80211_he_oper_size(cap->data + 1))
+ he_oper = (void *)(cap->data + 1);
if (he_oper)
sdata->vif.bss_conf.he_oper.params =
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.14/mac80211-mesh-fix-he-operation-element-length-check.patch
queue-5.14/cfg80211-fix-management-registrations-locking.patch
queue-5.14/cfg80211-scan-fix-rcu-in-cfg80211_add_nontrans_list.patch
