nl80211: fix validation of mesh path nexthop

commit 1fab1b89e2e8f01204a9c05a39fd0b6411a48593 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 2023802..4de66db 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ static 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] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
+                                         .len = ETH_ALEN },
 
        [NL80211_ATTR_REG_ALPHA2] = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = 2 },
        [NL80211_ATTR_REG_RULES] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },