From 1fab1b89e2e8f01204a9c05a39fd0b6411a48593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:30:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: fix validation of mesh path nexthop
Git-commit: 1fab1b89e2e8f01204a9c05a39fd0b6411a48593
Patch-mainline: v5.4-rc6
References: jsc#SLE-13430
Mesh path nexthop should be a ethernet address, but current validation
checks against 4 byte integers.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2ec600d672e74 ("nl80211/cfg80211: support for mesh, sta dumping")
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191029093003.10355-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 4453dd375de9..7b72286922f7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] = { /* NLA_NESTED can't be empty */ },
[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_ID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
.len = IEEE80211_MAX_MESH_ID_LEN },
- [NL80211_ATTR_MPATH_NEXT_HOP] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_MPATH_NEXT_HOP] = NLA_POLICY_ETH_ADDR_COMPAT,
[NL80211_ATTR_REG_ALPHA2] = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = 2 },
[NL80211_ATTR_REG_RULES] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
--
2.16.4