linux-stable.git/net/wireless, branch v3.2.83

nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification

2016-06-15T20:28:11+00:00

commit 8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb upstream.

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")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov 
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering

2016-04-01T00:54:31+00:00

commit cb150b9d23be6ee7f3a0fff29784f1c5b5ac514d upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Add default case in cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call() which bypasses
   the added wireless_nlevent_flush() (added upstream by commit
   6784c7db8d43 "cfg80211: change return value of notifier function")
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

wext: fix message delay/ordering

2016-04-01T00:54:31+00:00

commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 upstream.

Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a
given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the
message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the
interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted
caused a wext message.

For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is
without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link"
prints just rudimentary information:

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
Deleted 5: wlan1:  mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
    link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan1: 
    link/ether
(from my hwsim reproduction)

This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an
RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK.

The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the
messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out
to userspace in different order.

To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out
any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any
ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier
itself.

Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

nl80211: ignore HT/VHT capabilities without QoS/WMM

2015-05-09T22:16:30+00:00

commit 496fcc294daab18799e190c0264863d653588d1f upstream.

As HT/VHT depend heavily on QoS/WMM, it's not a good idea to
let userspace add clients that have HT/VHT but not QoS/WMM.
Since it does so in certain cases we've observed (client is
using HT IEs but not QoS/WMM) just ignore the HT/VHT info at
this point and don't pass it down to the drivers which might
unconditionally use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - VHT is not supported]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

nl80211: fix per-station group key get/del and memory leak

2015-02-20T00:49:39+00:00

commit 0fa7b39131576dd1baa6ca17fca53c65d7f62249 upstream.

In case userspace attempts to obtain key information for or delete a
unicast key, this is currently erroneously rejected unless the driver
sets the WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN flag. Apparently enough drivers do so it
was never noticed.

Fix that, and while at it fix a potential memory leak: the error path
in the get_key() function was placed after allocating a message but
didn't free it - move it to a better place. Luckily admin permissions
are needed to call this operation.

Fixes: e31b82136d1ad ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKs")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

nl80211: clear skb cb before passing to netlink

2014-11-05T20:27:44+00:00

commit bd8c78e78d5011d8111bc2533ee73b13a3bd6c42 upstream.

In testmode and vendor command reply/event SKBs we use the
skb cb data to store nl80211 parameters between allocation
and sending. This causes the code for CONFIG_NETLINK_MMAP
to get confused, because it takes ownership of the skb cb
data when the SKB is handed off to netlink, and it doesn't
explicitly clear it.

Clear the skb cb explicitly when we're done and before it
gets passed to netlink to avoid this issue.

Reported-by: Assaf Azulay 
Reported-by: David Spinadel 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

radiotap: fix bitmap-end-finding buffer overrun

2014-02-15T19:20:13+00:00

commit bd02cd2549cfcdfc57cb5ce57ffc3feb94f70575 upstream.

Evan Huus found (by fuzzing in wireshark) that the radiotap
iterator code can access beyond the length of the buffer if
the first bitmap claims an extension but then there's no
data at all. Fix this.

Reported-by: Evan Huus 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

wireless: radiotap: fix parsing buffer overrun

2013-11-28T14:02:04+00:00

commit f5563318ff1bde15b10e736e97ffce13be08bc1a upstream.

When parsing an invalid radiotap header, the parser can overrun
the buffer that is passed in because it doesn't correctly check
 1) the minimum radiotap header size
 2) the space for extended bitmaps

The first issue doesn't affect any in-kernel user as they all
check the minimum size before calling the radiotap function.
The second issue could potentially affect the kernel if an skb
is passed in that consists only of the radiotap header with a
lot of extended bitmaps that extend past the SKB. In that case
a read-only buffer overrun by at most 4 bytes is possible.

Fix this by adding the appropriate checks to the parser.

Reported-by: Evan Huus 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

nl80211: fix mgmt tx status and testmode reporting for netns

2013-09-10T00:57:10+00:00

commit a0ec570f4f69c4cb700d743a915096c2c8f56a99 upstream.

These two events were sent to the default network
namespace.

This caused AP mode in a non-default netns to not
work correctly. Mgmt tx status was multicasted to
a different (default) netns instead of the one the
AP was in.

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

cfg80211: check wdev->netdev in connection work

2013-06-19T01:16:38+00:00

commit c815797663b72e3ac1736f1886538152bc48e4af upstream.

If a P2P-Device is present and another virtual interface triggers
the connection work, the system crash because it tries to check
if the P2P-Device's netdev (which doesn't exist) is up. Skip any
wdevs that have no netdev to fix this.

Reported-by: YanBo 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings