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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-10-26 00:36:40 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-11-16 16:46:58 +0000
commitb0f5b374eadb79d66dedd9cec7b0f4e7bb6f70c4 (patch)
treea1aa05b5bfe956672710e95eb333d686f12d75f6 /include/net
parentc63cddefa8d6360353ba0e60f42b6c82f1c11b3c (diff)
mac80211: verify that skb data is present
commit 9b395bc3be1cebf0144a127c7e67d56dbdac0930 upstream. A number of places in the mesh code don't check that the frame data is present and in the skb header when trying to access. Add those checks and the necessary pskb_may_pull() calls. This prevents accessing data that doesn't actually exist. To do this, export ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen() to be able to use it in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 95852e36713b..19d632d46b60 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -2431,6 +2431,15 @@ unsigned int ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb(const struct sk_buff *skb);
unsigned int __attribute_const__ ieee80211_hdrlen(__le16 fc);
/**
+ * ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen - get mesh extension header length
+ * @meshhdr: the mesh extension header, only the flags field
+ * (first byte) will be accessed
+ * Returns the length of the extension header, which is always at
+ * least 6 bytes and at most 18 if address 5 and 6 are present.
+ */
+unsigned int ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen(struct ieee80211s_hdr *meshhdr);
+
+/**
* DOC: Data path helpers
*
* In addition to generic utilities, cfg80211 also offers