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Jouni Malinen 312ca38ddd cfg80211: Fix busy loop regression in ieee80211_ie_split_ric()
This function was modified to support the information element extension
case (WLAN_EID_EXTENSION) in a manner that would result in an infinite
loop when going through set of IEs that include WLAN_EID_RIC_DATA and
contain an IE that is in the after_ric array. The only place where this
can currently happen is in mac80211 ieee80211_send_assoc() where
ieee80211_ie_split_ric() is called with after_ric[].

This can be triggered by valid data from user space nl80211
association/connect request (i.e., requiring GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM). The
only known application having an option to include WLAN_EID_RIC_DATA in
these requests is wpa_supplicant and it had a bug that prevented this
specific contents from being used (and because of that, not triggering
this kernel bug in an automated test case ap_ft_ric) and now that this
bug is fixed, it has a workaround to avoid this kernel issue.
WLAN_EID_RIC_DATA is currently used only for testing purposes, so this
does not cause significant harm for production use cases.

Fixes: 2512b1b18d ("mac80211: extend ieee80211_ie_split to support EXTENSION")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2018-12-05 12:51:29 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu 2018-11-01 09:27:57 -07:00
block mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
certs
crypto
Documentation Merge branch 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-11-01 09:31:19 -07:00
drivers mac80211_hwsim: Timer should be initialized before device registered 2018-11-09 08:55:32 +01:00
firmware
fs fuse update for 4.20 2018-10-31 14:50:02 -07:00
include sctp: define SCTP_SS_DEFAULT for Stream schedulers 2018-11-03 19:40:29 -07:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: fix bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd to return 0 func_lens for unpriv 2018-11-02 13:51:15 -07:00
lib RISC-V Patches for the 4.20 Merge Window, Part 2 v2 2018-10-31 16:20:28 -07:00
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mm Merge branch 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu 2018-11-01 09:27:57 -07:00
net cfg80211: Fix busy loop regression in ieee80211_ie_split_ric() 2018-12-05 12:51:29 +01:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: remove GCC_BINARY_CONSTANT warning 2018-10-31 08:54:13 -07:00
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tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-01 09:16:01 -07:00
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.mailmap .mailmap: add Oleksij Rempel 2018-10-31 08:54:12 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-11-01 09:31:19 -07:00
Makefile Globally warn on VLA use 2018-10-28 13:26:45 -07:00
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