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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>2013-11-05 09:18:01 -0800
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-11-25 20:51:02 +0100
commite438768ff9b22c83a968e14b79e8c83128e8bfe4 (patch)
tree956366ad035f64af8965c3a737eaa74598d1e1b6 /net/wireless/nl80211.c
parentcfg80211: enforce disabling channels by custom or strict settings (diff)
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cfg80211: check regulatory request alpha2 early
Currently nl80211 allows userspace to send the kernel a bogus regulatory domain with at most 32 rules set and it won't reject it until after its allocated memory. Let's be smart about it and take advantage that the last_request is now available under RTNL and check if the alpha2 matches an expected request and reject any bogus userspace requests prior to hitting the memory allocator. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 04fa8bb1b4bb..7b73132910b7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5100,6 +5100,9 @@ static int nl80211_set_reg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (!reg_is_valid_request(alpha2))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
size_of_regd = sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain) +
num_rules * sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule);