[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>
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Jean Tourrilhes 2007-03-23 00:31:16 +00:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent ed4bb10631
commit c2805fbb86
4 changed files with 91 additions and 45 deletions

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@ -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