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Commit 916a29b4 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by Treehugger Robot
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UPSTREAM: wifi: cfg80211: fix BSS refcounting bugs



commit 0b7808818cb9df6680f98996b8e9a439fa7bcc2f upstream.

There are multiple refcounting bugs related to multi-BSSID:
 - In bss_ref_get(), if the BSS has a hidden_beacon_bss, then
   the bss pointer is overwritten before checking for the
   transmitted BSS, which is clearly wrong. Fix this by using
   the bss_from_pub() macro.

 - In cfg80211_bss_update() we copy the transmitted_bss pointer
   from tmp into new, but then if we release new, we'll unref
   it erroneously. We already set the pointer and ref it, but
   need to NULL it since it was copied from the tmp data.

 - In cfg80211_inform_single_bss_data(), if adding to the non-
   transmitted list fails, we unlink the BSS and yet still we
   return it, but this results in returning an entry without
   a reference. We shouldn't return it anyway if it was broken
   enough to not get added there.

This fixes CVE-2022-42720.

Bug: 253642015
Reported-by: default avatarSönke Huster <shuster@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de>
Tested-by: default avatarSönke Huster <shuster@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de>
Fixes: a3584f56 ("cfg80211: Properly track transmitting and non-transmitting BSS")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <joneslee@google.com>
Change-Id: I0389708d1ada86ab2fa0a7ada203b71f789c506b
parent a30ebebb
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