From: Eliad Peller <[email protected]> ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. -------------------
commit e007b857e88097c96c45620bf3b04a4e309053d1 upstream. MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which might result in reading beyond the buffer. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index fde82a8..a316e59 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = { [NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, [NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ-1 }, - [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN }, - [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, [NL80211_ATTR_KEY] = { .type = NLA_NESTED, }, [NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, -- 1.7.12.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
