From a8b5c6d69261889e022e9d64ac7ee8741db730bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:26:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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: 9bb7e0f24e7e ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 5e49492d5911d..74150ad958239 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -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),
};
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