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nl80211: fix NLA_POLICY_NESTED() arguments 

syzbot reported an out-of-bounds read when passing certain
malformed messages into nl80211. The specific place where
this happened isn't interesting, the problem is that nested
policy parsing was referring to the wrong maximum attribute
and thus the policy wasn't long enough.

Fix this by referring to the correct attribute. Since this
is really not necessary, I'll come up with a separate patch
to just pass the policy instead of both, in the common case
we can infer the maxattr from the size of the policy array.

Reported-by: syzbot+4157b036c5f4713b1f2f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9bb7e0f24e ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Johannes Berg 2019-01-25 09:26:32 +01:00
parent f9d672f1c2
commit a8b5c6d692
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@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
},
[NL80211_ATTR_TIMEOUT] = NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, 1),
[NL80211_ATTR_PEER_MEASUREMENTS] =
NLA_POLICY_NESTED(NL80211_PMSR_FTM_REQ_ATTR_MAX,
NLA_POLICY_NESTED(NL80211_PMSR_ATTR_MAX,
nl80211_pmsr_attr_policy),
};