From e007b857e88097c96c45620bf3b04a4e309053d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:13:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: fix MAC address validation
MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current
policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which
might result in reading beyond the buffer.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
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 b3a476fe8272..ffafda5022c2 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ 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,
--
2.20.1