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nl80211: fix another nl80211_fam.attrbuf race

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This is similar to the race Linus had reported, but in this case
it's an older bug: nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump() uses the wiphy
index in cb->args[0] as it is and thus parses the message over
and over again instead of just once because 0 is the first valid
wiphy index. Similar code in nl80211_testmode_dump() correctly
offsets the wiphy_index by 1, do that here as well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg 2013-07-30 22:34:28 +02:00
parent 23df0b7319
commit c319d50bfc
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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net/wireless/nl80211.c
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@ -441,10 +441,12 @@ static int nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump(struct sk_buff *skb,
goto out_unlock;
}
*rdev = wiphy_to_dev((*wdev)->wiphy);
cb->args[0] = (*rdev)->wiphy_idx;
/* 0 is the first index - add 1 to parse only once */
cb->args[0] = (*rdev)->wiphy_idx + 1;
cb->args[1] = (*wdev)->identifier;
} else {
struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0]);
/* subtract the 1 again here */
struct wiphy *wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(cb->args[0] - 1);
struct wireless_dev *tmp;
if (!wiphy) {