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Johannes Berg a8b5c6d692 nl80211: fix NLA_POLICY_NESTED() arguments
syzbot reported an out-of-bounds read when passing certain
malformed messages into nl80211. The specific place where
this happened isn't interesting, the problem is that nested
policy parsing was referring to the wrong maximum attribute
and thus the policy wasn't long enough.

Fix this by referring to the correct attribute. Since this
is really not necessary, I'll come up with a separate patch
to just pass the policy instead of both, in the common case
we can infer the maxattr from the size of the policy array.

Reported-by: syzbot+4157b036c5f4713b1f2f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9bb7e0f24e ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2019-01-25 09:26:32 +01:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.