FAILED: patch "[PATCH] cfg80211: mitigate A-MSDU aggregation attacks" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 2b8a1fee3488c602aca8bea004a087e60806a5cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathy Vanhoef <Mathy.Vanhoef@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 20:02:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: mitigate A-MSDU aggregation attacks

Mitigate A-MSDU injection attacks (CVE-2020-24588) by detecting if the
destination address of a subframe equals an RFC1042 (i.e., LLC/SNAP)
header, and if so dropping the complete A-MSDU frame. This mitigates
known attacks, although new (unknown) aggregation-based attacks may
remain possible.

This defense works because in A-MSDU aggregation injection attacks, a
normal encrypted Wi-Fi frame is turned into an A-MSDU frame. This means
the first 6 bytes of the first A-MSDU subframe correspond to an RFC1042
header. In other words, the destination MAC address of the first A-MSDU
subframe contains the start of an RFC1042 header during an aggregation
attack. We can detect this and thereby prevent this specific attack.
For details, see Section 7.2 of "Fragment and Forge: Breaking Wi-Fi
Through Frame Aggregation and Fragmentation".

Note that for kernel 4.9 and above this patch depends on "mac80211:
properly handle A-MSDUs that start with a rfc1042 header". Otherwise
this patch has no impact and attacks will remain possible.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef <Mathy.Vanhoef@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511200110.25d93176ddaf.I9e265b597f2cd23eb44573f35b625947b386a9de@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c
index 39966a873e40..7ec021a610ae 100644
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ void ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff_head *list,
 		remaining = skb->len - offset;
 		if (subframe_len > remaining)
 			goto purge;
+		/* mitigate A-MSDU aggregation injection attacks */
+		if (ether_addr_equal(eth.h_dest, rfc1042_header))
+			goto purge;
 
 		offset += sizeof(struct ethhdr);
 		last = remaining <= subframe_len + padding;




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