nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification

A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as
used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd
process) with a different protocol number.

Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's
socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as
removing a virtual interface.

Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC.
Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the
problem more generically.

Fixes: 026331c4d9b5 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov <dima@ubnt.com>
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 98c924260b3d312055c598255cff8478bccba1e9..056a7307862b78f5f0b2013b41c2686b5de18064 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -13216,7 +13216,7 @@ static int nl80211_netlink_notify(struct notifier_block * nb,
        struct wireless_dev *wdev;
        struct cfg80211_beacon_registration *reg, *tmp;
 
-       if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE)
+       if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE || notify->protocol != NETLINK_GENERIC)
                return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
        rcu_read_lock();