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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2020-04-30 22:13:07 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-30 17:51:41 -0700
commitd15da2a2e813679aeac8bff3be38d3adc849c1a6 (patch)
treef1919b2e7a7c452fabf18170d1f178f6cd88d826
parent7690aa1cdf7c4565ad6b013b324c28b685505e24 (diff)
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nl80211: link recursive netlink nested policy
Now that we have limited recursive policy validation to avoid stack overflows, change nl80211 to actually link the nested policy (linking back to itself eventually), which allows some code cleanups. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c10
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.h2
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/pmsr.c3
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 692bcd35f809..57c618b6cb0e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ static int validate_ie_attr(const struct nlattr *attr,
}
/* policy for the attributes */
+static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR];
+
static const struct nla_policy
nl80211_ftm_responder_policy[NL80211_FTM_RESP_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[NL80211_FTM_RESP_ATTR_ENABLED] = { .type = NLA_FLAG, },
@@ -296,11 +298,7 @@ nl80211_pmsr_req_attr_policy[NL80211_PMSR_REQ_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
static const struct nla_policy
nl80211_psmr_peer_attr_policy[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_ADDR] = NLA_POLICY_ETH_ADDR,
- /*
- * we could specify this again to be the top-level policy,
- * but that would open us up to recursion problems ...
- */
- [NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_CHAN] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
+ [NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_CHAN] = NLA_POLICY_NESTED(nl80211_policy),
[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_REQ] =
NLA_POLICY_NESTED(nl80211_pmsr_req_attr_policy),
[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_RESP] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
@@ -347,7 +345,7 @@ nl80211_tid_config_attr_policy[NL80211_TID_CONFIG_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, NL80211_TID_CONFIG_DISABLE),
};
-const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
+static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
[0] = { .strict_start_type = NL80211_ATTR_HE_OBSS_PD },
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_NAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING,
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.h b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
index a41e94a49a89..d3e8e426c486 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.h
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
int nl80211_init(void);
void nl80211_exit(void);
-extern const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR];
-
void *nl80211hdr_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq,
int flags, u8 cmd);
bool nl80211_put_sta_rate(struct sk_buff *msg, struct rate_info *info,
diff --git a/net/wireless/pmsr.c b/net/wireless/pmsr.c
index 63dc8023447f..a95c79d18349 100644
--- a/net/wireless/pmsr.c
+++ b/net/wireless/pmsr.c
@@ -187,10 +187,9 @@ static int pmsr_parse_peer(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
/* reuse info->attrs */
memset(info->attrs, 0, sizeof(*info->attrs) * (NL80211_ATTR_MAX + 1));
- /* need to validate here, we don't want to have validation recursion */
err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(info->attrs, NL80211_ATTR_MAX,
tb[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_CHAN],
- nl80211_policy, info->extack);
+ NULL, info->extack);
if (err)
return err;