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| author | Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> | 2007-03-23 00:31:16 +0000 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2007-03-27 14:10:26 -0400 |
| commit | c2805fbb8630abb95d94ce7adc3f97976f7e0367 (patch) | |
| tree | ca94be7f103d430d38ef6543db597e90f3a63999 /include/net/iw_handler.h | |
| parent | ed4bb1063171b2f44a40b0a9c400dedb0590dce6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c2805fbb8630abb95d94ce7adc3f97976f7e0367.tar.gz lwn-c2805fbb8630abb95d94ce7adc3f97976f7e0367.zip | |
[PATCH] WE-22 : prevent information leak on 64 bit
Johannes Berg discovered that kernel space was leaking to
userspace on 64 bit platform. He made a first patch to fix that. This
is an improved version of his patch.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/iw_handler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/iw_handler.h | 30 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/iw_handler.h b/include/net/iw_handler.h index 10559e937d27..8a830188354d 100644 --- a/include/net/iw_handler.h +++ b/include/net/iw_handler.h @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ /* * This file define the new driver API for Wireless Extensions * - * Version : 7 18.3.05 + * Version : 8 16.3.07 * * Authors : Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - <jt@hpl.hp.com> - * Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved. + * Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved. */ #ifndef _IW_HANDLER_H @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ * will be needed... * I just plan to increment with each new version. */ -#define IW_HANDLER_VERSION 7 +#define IW_HANDLER_VERSION 8 /* * Changes : @@ -239,6 +239,10 @@ * - Remove (struct iw_point *)->pointer from events and streams * - Remove spy_offset from struct iw_handler_def * - Add "check" version of event macros for ieee802.11 stack + * + * V7 to V8 + * ---------- + * - Prevent leaking of kernel space in stream on 64 bits. */ /**************************** CONSTANTS ****************************/ @@ -500,7 +504,11 @@ iwe_stream_add_event(char * stream, /* Stream of events */ /* Check if it's possible */ if(likely((stream + event_len) < ends)) { iwe->len = event_len; - memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, event_len); + /* Beware of alignement issues on 64 bits */ + memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN); + memcpy(stream + IW_EV_LCP_LEN, + ((char *) iwe) + IW_EV_LCP_LEN, + event_len - IW_EV_LCP_LEN); stream += event_len; } return stream; @@ -521,10 +529,10 @@ iwe_stream_add_point(char * stream, /* Stream of events */ /* Check if it's possible */ if(likely((stream + event_len) < ends)) { iwe->len = event_len; - memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, IW_EV_LCP_LEN); + memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN); memcpy(stream + IW_EV_LCP_LEN, ((char *) iwe) + IW_EV_LCP_LEN + IW_EV_POINT_OFF, - IW_EV_POINT_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_LEN); + IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN); memcpy(stream + IW_EV_POINT_LEN, extra, iwe->u.data.length); stream += event_len; } @@ -574,7 +582,11 @@ iwe_stream_check_add_event(char * stream, /* Stream of events */ /* Check if it's possible, set error if not */ if(likely((stream + event_len) < ends)) { iwe->len = event_len; - memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, event_len); + /* Beware of alignement issues on 64 bits */ + memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN); + memcpy(stream + IW_EV_LCP_LEN, + ((char *) iwe) + IW_EV_LCP_LEN, + event_len - IW_EV_LCP_LEN); stream += event_len; } else *perr = -E2BIG; @@ -598,10 +610,10 @@ iwe_stream_check_add_point(char * stream, /* Stream of events */ /* Check if it's possible */ if(likely((stream + event_len) < ends)) { iwe->len = event_len; - memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, IW_EV_LCP_LEN); + memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN); memcpy(stream + IW_EV_LCP_LEN, ((char *) iwe) + IW_EV_LCP_LEN + IW_EV_POINT_OFF, - IW_EV_POINT_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_LEN); + IW_EV_POINT_PK_LEN - IW_EV_LCP_PK_LEN); memcpy(stream + IW_EV_POINT_LEN, extra, iwe->u.data.length); stream += event_len; } else |