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[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.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller 2007-11-20 03:29:53 -08:00
parent a572da4373
commit 0a06ea8718
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -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) && copy_to_user(arg, ifr, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
if (IW_IS_GET(cmd) && copy_to_user(arg, ifr, sizeof(struct iwreq)))
return -EFAULT;
return ret;
}