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[PATCH] wireless: wext: terminate ifr name coming from userspace

From "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] wireless: wext: terminate ifr name coming from userspace
Date 2017-07-18 06:30 +0200
Message-ID <u4sj0-67a-23@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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ifr name is assumed to be a valid string by the kernel, but nothing
was forcing username to pass a valid string.

In turn, this would cause panics as we tried to access the string
past it's valid memory.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
---
 net/core/dev_ioctl.c   | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 82fd4c9c4a1b..7657ad6bc13d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
 		if (copy_from_user(&iwr, arg, sizeof(iwr)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
+		iwr.ifr_name[sizeof(iwr.ifr_name) - 1] = 0;
+
 		return wext_handle_ioctl(net, &iwr, cmd, arg);
 	}
 
-- 
2.11.0

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[PATCH] wireless: wext: terminate ifr name coming from userspace "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com> - 2017-07-18 06:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] wireless: wext: terminate ifr name coming from  userspace David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-07-19 22:40 +0200

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