Patch "brcmfmac: avoid writing channel out of allocated array" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "brcmfmac: avoid writing channel out of allocated array" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    brcmfmac: avoid writing channel out of allocated array

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     brcmfmac-avoid-writing-channel-out-of-allocated-array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 77c0d0cd10e793989d1e8b835a9a09694182cb39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 12:09:41 +0100
Subject: brcmfmac: avoid writing channel out of allocated array
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From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

commit 77c0d0cd10e793989d1e8b835a9a09694182cb39 upstream.

Our code was assigning number of channels to the index variable by
default. If firmware reported channel we didn't predict this would
result in using that initial index value and writing out of array. This
never happened so far (we got a complete list of supported channels) but
it means possible memory corruption so we should handle it anyway.

This patch simply detects unexpected channel and ignores it.

As we don't try to create new entry now, it's also safe to drop hw_value
and center_freq assignment. For known channels we have these set anyway.

I decided to fix this issue by assigning NULL or a target channel to the
channel variable. This was one of possible ways, I prefefred this one as
it also avoids using channel[index] over and over.

Fixes: 58de92d2f95e ("brcmfmac: use static superset of channels for wiphy bands")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c |   32 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -5913,7 +5913,6 @@ static int brcmf_construct_chaninfo(stru
 	u32 i, j;
 	u32 total;
 	u32 chaninfo;
-	u32 index;
 
 	pbuf = kzalloc(BRCMF_DCMD_MEDLEN, GFP_KERNEL);
 
@@ -5961,33 +5960,36 @@ static int brcmf_construct_chaninfo(stru
 		    ch.bw == BRCMU_CHAN_BW_80)
 			continue;
 
-		channel = band->channels;
-		index = band->n_channels;
+		channel = NULL;
 		for (j = 0; j < band->n_channels; j++) {
-			if (channel[j].hw_value == ch.control_ch_num) {
-				index = j;
+			if (band->channels[j].hw_value == ch.control_ch_num) {
+				channel = &band->channels[j];
 				break;
 			}
 		}
-		channel[index].center_freq =
-			ieee80211_channel_to_frequency(ch.control_ch_num,
-						       band->band);
-		channel[index].hw_value = ch.control_ch_num;
+		if (!channel) {
+			/* It seems firmware supports some channel we never
+			 * considered. Something new in IEEE standard?
+			 */
+			brcmf_err("Ignoring unexpected firmware channel %d\n",
+				  ch.control_ch_num);
+			continue;
+		}
 
 		/* assuming the chanspecs order is HT20,
 		 * HT40 upper, HT40 lower, and VHT80.
 		 */
 		if (ch.bw == BRCMU_CHAN_BW_80) {
-			channel[index].flags &= ~IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ;
+			channel->flags &= ~IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ;
 		} else if (ch.bw == BRCMU_CHAN_BW_40) {
-			brcmf_update_bw40_channel_flag(&channel[index], &ch);
+			brcmf_update_bw40_channel_flag(channel, &ch);
 		} else {
 			/* enable the channel and disable other bandwidths
 			 * for now as mentioned order assure they are enabled
 			 * for subsequent chanspecs.
 			 */
-			channel[index].flags = IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_HT40 |
-					       IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ;
+			channel->flags = IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_HT40 |
+					 IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ;
 			ch.bw = BRCMU_CHAN_BW_20;
 			cfg->d11inf.encchspec(&ch);
 			chaninfo = ch.chspec;
@@ -5995,11 +5997,11 @@ static int brcmf_construct_chaninfo(stru
 						       &chaninfo);
 			if (!err) {
 				if (chaninfo & WL_CHAN_RADAR)
-					channel[index].flags |=
+					channel->flags |=
 						(IEEE80211_CHAN_RADAR |
 						 IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR);
 				if (chaninfo & WL_CHAN_PASSIVE)
-					channel[index].flags |=
+					channel->flags |=
 						IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR;
 			}
 		}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rafal@milecki.pl are

queue-4.9/brcmfmac-avoid-writing-channel-out-of-allocated-array.patch