: Fix WEXT userland corruption on 64-bit
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PATCH 1/1 : Fix WEXT userland corruption on 64-bit
This bug affects WEXT usage on all 64-bit platforms, compat mode or not. It overwrites 8 bytes past the end of the userland iwreq.
I've checked the following patch into my net-2.6 tree and will queue it up for -stable too.
Shaddy, this should fix the "encryption key is too long" iwconfig issue.
I'll try to figure out why iwlist gets a bus error and the zd1211rw driver generates all of those unaligned access errors next.
commit 0a06ea87185531705e4417e3a051f81b64f210c1
Author: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Date: Tue Nov 20 03:29:53 2007 -0800
[WIRELESS] WEXT: Fix userspace corruption on 64-bit.
On 64-bit systems sizeof(struct ifreq) is 8 bytes larger than sizeof(struct iwreq).
For GET calls, the wireless extension code copies back into userspace using sizeof(struct ifreq) but userspace and elsewhere only allocates a "struct iwreq". Thus, this copy writes past the end of the iwreq object and corrupts whatever sits after it in memory.
Fix the copy_to_user() length.
This particularly hurts the compat case because the wireless compat code uses compat_alloc_userspace() and right after this allocated buffer is the current bottom of the user stack, and that's what gets overwritten by the copy_to_user() call.
net/wireless/wext.c +1 -1
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ int wext_handle_ioctl(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd,rtnl_lock (); ret =wireless_process_ioctl (net, ifr, cmd);rtnl_unlock (); -if (IW_IS_GET (cmd) &©_to_user (arg, ifr,sizeof (struct ifreq ))) +if (IW_IS_GET (cmd) &©_to_user (arg, ifr,sizeof (struct iwreq )))return -EFAULT ;return ret; }