Patch "mac80211: mlme: find auth challenge directly" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mac80211: mlme: find auth challenge directly

to the 5.15-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-mlme-find-auth-challenge-directly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From foo@baz Fri Oct 14 10:18:27 AM CEST 2022
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:15:58 +0200
Subject: mac80211: mlme: find auth challenge directly
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20221013181601.5712-3-nbd@xxxxxxxx>

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 49a765d6785e99157ff5091cc37485732496864e upstream.

There's no need to parse all elements etc. just to find the
authentication challenge - use cfg80211_find_elem() instead.
This also allows us to remove WLAN_EID_CHALLENGE handling
from the element parsing entirely.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920154009.45f9b3a15722.Ice3159ffad03a007d6154cbf1fb3a8c48489e86f@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |    2 --
 net/mac80211/mlme.c        |   11 ++++++-----
 net/mac80211/util.c        |    4 ----
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -1542,7 +1542,6 @@ struct ieee802_11_elems {
 	const u8 *supp_rates;
 	const u8 *ds_params;
 	const struct ieee80211_tim_ie *tim;
-	const u8 *challenge;
 	const u8 *rsn;
 	const u8 *rsnx;
 	const u8 *erp_info;
@@ -1596,7 +1595,6 @@ struct ieee802_11_elems {
 	u8 ssid_len;
 	u8 supp_rates_len;
 	u8 tim_len;
-	u8 challenge_len;
 	u8 rsn_len;
 	u8 rsnx_len;
 	u8 ext_supp_rates_len;
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2889,17 +2889,17 @@ static void ieee80211_auth_challenge(str
 {
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
 	struct ieee80211_mgd_auth_data *auth_data = sdata->u.mgd.auth_data;
+	const struct element *challenge;
 	u8 *pos;
-	struct ieee802_11_elems elems;
 	u32 tx_flags = 0;
 	struct ieee80211_prep_tx_info info = {
 		.subtype = IEEE80211_STYPE_AUTH,
 	};
 
 	pos = mgmt->u.auth.variable;
-	ieee802_11_parse_elems(pos, len - (pos - (u8 *)mgmt), false, &elems,
-			       mgmt->bssid, auth_data->bss->bssid);
-	if (!elems.challenge)
+	challenge = cfg80211_find_elem(WLAN_EID_CHALLENGE, pos,
+				       len - (pos - (u8 *)mgmt));
+	if (!challenge)
 		return;
 	auth_data->expected_transaction = 4;
 	drv_mgd_prepare_tx(sdata->local, sdata, &info);
@@ -2907,7 +2907,8 @@ static void ieee80211_auth_challenge(str
 		tx_flags = IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS |
 			   IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_MLME_CONN_TX;
 	ieee80211_send_auth(sdata, 3, auth_data->algorithm, 0,
-			    elems.challenge - 2, elems.challenge_len + 2,
+			    (void *)challenge,
+			    challenge->datalen + sizeof(*challenge),
 			    auth_data->bss->bssid, auth_data->bss->bssid,
 			    auth_data->key, auth_data->key_len,
 			    auth_data->key_idx, tx_flags);
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -1117,10 +1117,6 @@ _ieee802_11_parse_elems_crc(const u8 *st
 			} else
 				elem_parse_failed = true;
 			break;
-		case WLAN_EID_CHALLENGE:
-			elems->challenge = pos;
-			elems->challenge_len = elen;
-			break;
 		case WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC:
 			if (elen >= 4 && pos[0] == 0x00 && pos[1] == 0x50 &&
 			    pos[2] == 0xf2) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxx are

queue-5.15/mac80211-fix-memory-leaks-with-element-parsing.patch
queue-5.15/mac80211-mlme-find-auth-challenge-directly.patch
queue-5.15/mac80211-mesh-clean-up-rx_bcn_presp-api.patch
queue-5.15/wifi-mac80211-fix-mbssid-parsing-use-after-free.patch
queue-5.15/mac80211-always-allocate-struct-ieee802_11_elems.patch
queue-5.15/mac80211-move-crc-into-struct-ieee802_11_elems.patch



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