[ 29/45] nl80211: fix another nl80211_fam.attrbuf race

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Aug 18 2013 - 16:40:30 EST


3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit c319d50bfcf678c2857038276d9fab3c6646f3bf upstream.

This is similar to the race Linus had reported, but in this case
it's an older bug: nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump() uses the wiphy
index in cb->args[0] as it is and thus parses the message over
and over again instead of just once because 0 is the first valid
wiphy index. Similar code in nl80211_testmode_dump() correctly
offsets the wiphy_index by 1, do that here as well.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -471,10 +471,12 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(str
goto out_unlock;
}
*rdev = wiphy_to_dev((*wdev)->wiphy);
- cb->args[0] = (*rdev)->wiphy_idx;
+ /* 0 is the first index - add 1 to parse only once */
+ cb->args[0] = (*rdev)->wiphy_idx + 1;
cb->args[1] = (*wdev)->identifier;
} else {
- struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0]);
+ /* subtract the 1 again here */
+ struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0] - 1);
struct wireless_dev *tmp;

if (!wiphy) {


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