Commit ce2e1ca7 authored Mar 26, 2020 by Jouni Malinen Committed by Johannes Berg Mar 26, 2020

mac80211: Check port authorization in the ieee80211_tx_dequeue() case

mac80211 used to check port authorization in the Data frame enqueue case
when going through start_xmit(). However, that authorization status may
change while the frame is waiting in a queue. Add a similar check in the
dequeue case to avoid sending previously accepted frames after
authorization change. This provides additional protection against
potential leaking of frames after a station has been disconnected and
the keys for it are being removed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326155133.ced84317ea29.I34d4c47cd8cc8a4042b38a76f16a601fbcbfd9b3@changeid

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 05dcb8bb

net/mac80211/tx.c

+18 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3604,8 +3604,25 @@ begin:
		tx.skb = skb;
		tx.sdata = vif_to_sdata(info->control.vif);

		if (txq->sta)
		if (txq->sta) {
		tx.sta = container_of(txq->sta, struct sta_info, sta);
		/*
		* Drop unicast frames to unauthorised stations unless they are
		* EAPOL frames from the local station.
		*/
		if (unlikely(!ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&tx.sdata->vif) &&
		tx.sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB &&
		!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) &&
		!test_sta_flag(tx.sta, WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED) &&
		(!(info->control.flags &
		IEEE80211_TX_CTRL_PORT_CTRL_PROTO) \|\|
		!ether_addr_equal(tx.sdata->vif.addr,
		hdr->addr2)))) {
		I802_DEBUG_INC(local->tx_handlers_drop_unauth_port);
		ieee80211_free_txskb(&local->hw, skb);
		goto begin;
		}
		}

		/*
		* The key can be removed while the packet was queued, so need to call

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