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authorGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>2010-10-12 07:07:42 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-10-13 15:45:21 -0400
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wext: fix alignment problem in serializing 'struct iw_point'
wext: fix alignment problem in serializing 'struct iw_point' This fixes a typo in the definition of the serialized length of struct iw_point: a) wireless.h is exported to userspace, the typo causes IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN to be 12 on 64-bit, and 8 on 32-bit systems (causing misalignment); b) in compat-64 mode iwe_stream_add_point() memcpys overlap (see below). The second case in in compat-64 mode looks like (variable names are as in include/net/iw_handler.h:iwe_stream_add_point()): point_len = IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_LEN = 8 lcp_len = IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN = 4 2nd memcpy: IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN = 12 - 4 = 8 IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN <--------------> *---> 'extra' data area +-------+-------+-------+-------+---------------+------- ...-+ | len | cmd |length | flags | (empty) -> extra ... | +-------+-------+-------+-------+---------------+------- ...-+ 2 2 2 2 4 lcp_len <--------------> <-!! OVERLAP !!> <--1st memcpy--><------- 2nd memcpy -----------> <---- 3rd memcpy ------- ... > <--------- point_len ----------> This case could cause overrun whenever iw_point.length < 4. The other two cases are - * 32-bit systems: IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN = 8 - 4 = 4, the second memcpy copies exactly the 4 required bytes; * 64-bit systems: IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN = 12 - 4 = 8, the second memcpy copies a superfluous (but non overlapping) 4 bytes. The patch changes IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN to be 8, so that in all 3 cases always only the requested iw_point.{length,flags} (both __u16) are copied, avoiding overrrun (compat-64) and superfluous copy (64-bit). In addition, the userspace header is sanitized (in agreement with version 30 of the wireless tools). Many thanks to Johannes Berg for help and review with this patch. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/wireless.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/wireless.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/wireless.h b/include/linux/wireless.h
index e6827eedf18b..4395b28bb86c 100644
--- a/include/linux/wireless.h
+++ b/include/linux/wireless.h
@@ -1157,6 +1157,6 @@ struct __compat_iw_event {
#define IW_EV_PARAM_PK_LEN (IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN + sizeof(struct iw_param))
#define IW_EV_ADDR_PK_LEN (IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN + sizeof(struct sockaddr))
#define IW_EV_QUAL_PK_LEN (IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN + sizeof(struct iw_quality))
-#define IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN (IW_EV_LCP_LEN + 4)
+#define IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN (IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN + 4)
#endif /* _LINUX_WIRELESS_H */