Commit c87905be authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg
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mac80211: set bss_info data before configuring the channel 

When mac80211 changes the channel, it also calls into the driver's
bss_info_changed() callback, e.g. with BSS_CHANGED_IDLE. The driver
may, like iwlwifi does, access more data from bss_info in that case
and iwlwifi accesses the basic_rates bitmap, but if changing from a
band with more (basic) rates to one with fewer, an out-of-bounds
access of the rate array may result.

While we can't avoid having invalid data at some point in time, we
can avoid having it while we call the driver - so set up all the
data before configuring the channel, and then apply it afterwards.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195677



Reported-by: default avatarJohannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de>
Tested-by: default avatarJohannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de>
Debugged-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 44f6d42c

net/mac80211/mlme.c

+28 −10
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -4392,15 +4392,19 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, 
			return -ENOMEM;

	}



	if (new_sta || override) {

		err = ieee80211_prep_channel(sdata, cbss);

		if (err) {

			if (new_sta)

				sta_info_free(local, new_sta);

			return -EINVAL;

		}

	}



	/*

	 * Set up the information for the new channel before setting the

	 * new channel. We can't - completely race-free - change the basic

	 * rates bitmap and the channel (sband) that it refers to, but if

	 * we set it up before we at least avoid calling into the driver's

	 * bss_info_changed() method with invalid information (since we do

	 * call that from changing the channel - only for IDLE and perhaps

	 * some others, but ...).

	 *

	 * So to avoid that, just set up all the new information before the

	 * channel, but tell the driver to apply it only afterwards, since

	 * it might need the new channel for that.

	 */

	if (new_sta) {

		u32 rates = 0, basic_rates = 0;

		bool have_higher_than_11mbit;
@@ -4471,8 +4475,22 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, 
			sdata->vif.bss_conf.sync_dtim_count = 0;

		}

		rcu_read_unlock();

	}



		/* tell driver about BSSID, basic rates and timing */

	if (new_sta || override) {

		err = ieee80211_prep_channel(sdata, cbss);

		if (err) {

			if (new_sta)

				sta_info_free(local, new_sta);

			return -EINVAL;

		}

	}



	if (new_sta) {

		/*

		 * tell driver about BSSID, basic rates and timing

		 * this was set up above, before setting the channel

		 */

		ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata,

			BSS_CHANGED_BSSID | BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES |

			BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT);

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