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

nl80211: Check for the required netlink attribute presence

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: nl80211-check-for-the-required-netlink-attribute-presence.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:13:29 CET 2018

From: Hao Chen flank3rsky@gmail.com Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:00:31 +0800 Subject: nl80211: Check for the required netlink attribute presence

From: Hao Chen flank3rsky@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 3ea15452ee85754f70f3b9fa1f23165ef2e77ba7 ]

nl80211_nan_add_func() does not check if the required attribute NL80211_NAN_FUNC_FOLLOW_UP_DEST is present when processing NL80211_CMD_ADD_NAN_FUNCTION request. This request can be issued by users with CAP_NET_ADMIN privilege and may result in NULL dereference and a system crash. Add a check for the required attribute presence.

Signed-off-by: Hao Chen flank3rsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -10777,7 +10777,8 @@ static int nl80211_nan_add_func(struct s break; case NL80211_NAN_FUNC_FOLLOW_UP: if (!tb[NL80211_NAN_FUNC_FOLLOW_UP_ID] || - !tb[NL80211_NAN_FUNC_FOLLOW_UP_REQ_ID]) { + !tb[NL80211_NAN_FUNC_FOLLOW_UP_REQ_ID] || + !tb[NL80211_NAN_FUNC_FOLLOW_UP_DEST]) { err = -EINVAL; goto out; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from flank3rsky@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/nl80211-check-for-the-required-netlink-attribute-presence.patch