Re: [PATCH] mac80211: mlme: check for null after calling kmemdup

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 18:03 +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> As the possible failure of the alloc, the ifmgd->assoc_req_ies might be
> NULL pointer and will be used by cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp() with the wrong
> length.
> Therefore it might be better to set length to 0 if fails as same as
> ieee80211_mgd_stop().
> 

That feels a bit vague, and indeed I cannot find any place that would
actually dereference the pointer if it's NULL?

Still maybe a good as a cleanup.

> Fixes: 4d9ec73d2b78 ("cfg80211: Report Association Request frame IEs in association events")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/mlme.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> index 9bed6464c5bd..258b492c699c 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> @@ -1058,7 +1058,10 @@ static void ieee80211_send_assoc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>  	pos = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
>  	kfree(ifmgd->assoc_req_ies);
>  	ifmgd->assoc_req_ies = kmemdup(ie_start, pos - ie_start, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	ifmgd->assoc_req_ies_len = pos - ie_start;
> +	if (!ifmgd->assoc_req_ies)
> +		ifmgd->assoc_req_ies_len = 0;
> +	else
> +		ifmgd->assoc_req_ies_len = pos - ie_start;
> 

But it seems it would be better to actually fail the association in this
case? There's a reason we're reporting this, so that we can see
HT/VHT/..., and I'm sure that will be necessary in many cases.

johannes