This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: cfg80211: reject bad AP MLD address
to the 6.1-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:
wifi-cfg80211-reject-bad-ap-mld-address.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d3b451cbd18809fecb1138a9e2beb744495a9684
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jun 4 12:11:18 2023 +0300
wifi: cfg80211: reject bad AP MLD address
[ Upstream commit 727073ca5e55ab6a07df316250be8a12606e8677 ]
When trying to authenticate, if the AP MLD address isn't
a valid address, mac80211 can throw a warning. Avoid that
by rejecting such addresses.
Fixes: d648c23024bd ("wifi: nl80211: support MLO in auth/assoc")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230604120651.89188912bd1d.I8dbc6c8ee0cb766138803eec59508ef4ce477709@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7320d676ce3a5..087c0c442e231 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -10542,6 +10542,8 @@ static int nl80211_authenticate(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MLD_ADDR])
return -EINVAL;
req.ap_mld_addr = nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MLD_ADDR]);
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(req.ap_mld_addr))
+ return -EINVAL;
}
req.bss = cfg80211_get_bss(&rdev->wiphy, chan, bssid, ssid, ssid_len,
