This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ieee802154: handle iftypes as u32
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-handle-iftypes-as-u32.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 7957205ab19528d4496d9298c477bfda2a4ab42b
Author: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 11 22:09:16 2021 -0500
net: ieee802154: handle iftypes as u32
[ Upstream commit 451dc48c806a7ce9fbec5e7a24ccf4b2c936e834 ]
This patch fixes an issue that an u32 netlink value is handled as a
signed enum value which doesn't fit into the range of u32 netlink type.
If it's handled as -1 value some BIT() evaluation ends in a
shift-out-of-bounds issue. To solve the issue we set the to u32 max which
is s32 "-1" value to keep backwards compatibility and let the followed enum
values start counting at 0. This brings the compiler to never handle the
enum as signed and a check if the value is above NL802154_IFTYPE_MAX should
filter -1 out.
Fixes: f3ea5e44231a ("ieee802154: add new interface command")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112030916.685793-1-aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/net/nl802154.h b/include/net/nl802154.h
index 32cb3e591e07b..53f140fc1983c 100644
--- a/include/net/nl802154.h
+++ b/include/net/nl802154.h
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
*
*/
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
#define NL802154_GENL_NAME "nl802154"
enum nl802154_commands {
@@ -143,10 +145,9 @@ enum nl802154_attrs {
};
enum nl802154_iftype {
- /* for backwards compatibility TODO */
- NL802154_IFTYPE_UNSPEC = -1,
+ NL802154_IFTYPE_UNSPEC = (~(__u32)0),
- NL802154_IFTYPE_NODE,
+ NL802154_IFTYPE_NODE = 0,
NL802154_IFTYPE_MONITOR,
NL802154_IFTYPE_COORD,
