Patch "nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
nl80211_Sanitize_array_index_in_parse_txq_params.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

Subject: nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params
From: Dan Williams [email protected]
Date: Mon Jan 29 17:03:15 2018 -0800

From: Dan Williams [email protected]

commit 259d8c1e984318497c84eef547bbb6b1d9f4eb05

Wireless drivers rely on parse_txq_params to validate that txq_params->ac is less than NL80211_NUM_ACS by the time the low-level driver's ->conf_tx() handler is called. Use a new helper, array_index_nospec(), to sanitize txq_params->ac with respect to speculation. I.e. ensure that any speculation into ->conf_tx() handlers is done with a value of txq_params->ac that is within the bounds of [0, NL80211_NUM_ACS).

---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/nl80211.h>
 #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 #include <linux/netlink.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/genetlink.h>

@@ -2056,20 +2057,22 @@ static const struct nla_policy txq_param
 static int parse_txq_params(struct nlattr *tb[],
 			    struct ieee80211_txq_params *txq_params)
 {
+	u8 ac;
+
 	if (!tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_AC] || !tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_TXOP] ||
 	    !tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_CWMIN] || !tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_CWMAX] ||
 	    !tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_AIFS])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	txq_params->ac = nla_get_u8(tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_AC]);
+	ac = nla_get_u8(tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_AC]);
 	txq_params->txop = nla_get_u16(tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_TXOP]);
 	txq_params->cwmin = nla_get_u16(tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_CWMIN]);
 	txq_params->cwmax = nla_get_u16(tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_CWMAX]);
 	txq_params->aifs = nla_get_u8(tb[NL80211_TXQ_ATTR_AIFS]);
 
-	if (txq_params->ac >= NL80211_NUM_ACS)
+	if (ac >= NL80211_NUM_ACS)
 		return -EINVAL;
-
+	txq_params->ac = array_index_nospec(ac, NL80211_NUM_ACS);
 	return 0;
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/nl80211_Sanitize_array_index_in_parse_txq_params.patch