linux-stable.git/net/wireless/core.c, branch linux-3.18.y

cfg80211: limit wiphy names to 128 bytes

2018-05-25T08:54:57+00:00

commit a7cfebcb7594a24609268f91299ab85ba064bf82 upstream.

There's currently no limit on wiphy names, other than netlink
message size and memory limitations, but that causes issues when,
for example, the wiphy name is used in a uevent, e.g. in rfkill
where we use the same name for the rfkill instance, and then the
buffer there is "only" 2k for the environment variables.

This was reported by syzkaller, which used a 4k name.

Limit the name to something reasonable, I randomly picked 128.

Reported-by: syzbot+230d9e642a85d3fec29c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering

2016-03-21T02:13:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit cb150b9d23be6ee7f3a0fff29784f1c5b5ac514d ]

Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier
call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly
since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the
kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example,
the following can happen:

5: wlan1:  mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: 
    link/ether

when setting the interface down causes the wext message.

To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function
and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-john-2014-09-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2014-09-15T18:51:23+00:00

Johannes Berg  says:

"This time, I have some rate minstrel improvements, support for a very
small feature from CCX that Steinar reverse-engineered, dynamic ACK
timeout support, a number of changes for TDLS, early support for radio
resource measurement and many fixes. Also, I'm changing a number of
places to clear key memory when it's freed and Intel claims copyright
for code they developed."

Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/iface.c

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: clear wext keys when freeing and removing them

2014-09-11T10:07:28+00:00

When freeing the keys stored for wireless extensions, clear the memory
to avoid having the key material stick around in memory "forever".
Similarly, when userspace overwrites a key, actually clear it instead
of just setting the key length to zero.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: add Intel Mobile Communications copyright

2014-09-05T11:52:06+00:00

Our legal structure changed at some point (see wikipedia), but
we forgot to immediately switch over to the new copyright
notice.

For files that we have modified in the time since the change,
add the proper copyright notice now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-john-2014-08-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2014-09-04T17:41:33+00:00

Johannes Berg  says:

"Not that much content this time. Some RCU cleanups, crypto
performance improvements, and various patches all over,
rather than listing them one might as well look into the
git log instead."

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c

cfg80211: re-enable CSA for drivers that support it

2014-08-26T09:16:01+00:00

This reverts commit dda444d52496aa8ddc501561bca580f1374a96a9.

Channel switching code has been reworked and
improved significantly since the time original
locking issues were found.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wireless: core: Reorder wiphy_register() notifications relevantly

2014-08-25T20:17:41+00:00

Currently it can send regulatory domain change notification before any
NEW_WIPHY notification. Moreover, if rfill_register() fails, calling
wiphy_unregister() will send a DEL_WIPHY though no NEW_WIPHY had been
sent previously.

Thus reordering so it properly notifies NEW_WIPHY before any other.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Bursztyka 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

cfg80211: make ethtool the driver's responsibility

2014-06-23T09:05:33+00:00

Currently, cfg80211 tries to implement ethtool, but that doesn't
really scale well, with all the different operations. Make the
lower-level driver responsible for it, which currently only has
an effect on mac80211. It will similarly not scale well at that
level though, since mac80211 also has many drivers.

To cleanly implement this in mac80211, introduce a new file and
move some code to appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: send events when devices are added/removed

2014-05-26T11:52:25+00:00

We're currently sending NEW_WIPHY events for renames (which
is a bit odd, but now can't be changed), but also send them
for really new devices that register.

Also send DEL_WIPHY events when a device is removed, the
event ID for this was already reserved.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg