From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933010AbcECAUT (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 20:20:19 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59825 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932448AbcECAQl (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 20:16:41 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Ivanov , Johannes Berg Subject: [PATCH 4.4 054/163] nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:11:22 -0700 Message-Id: <20160503000510.312696787@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.2 In-Reply-To: <20160503000508.556845508@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160503000508.556845508@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dmitry Ivanov commit 8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb upstream. A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd process) with a different protocol number. Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as removing a virtual interface. Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC. Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the problem more generically. Fixes: 026331c4d9b5 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov [rewrite commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -13161,7 +13161,7 @@ static int nl80211_netlink_notify(struct struct wireless_dev *wdev; struct cfg80211_beacon_registration *reg, *tmp; - if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE) + if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE || notify->protocol != NETLINK_GENERIC) return NOTIFY_DONE; rcu_read_lock();