Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757297AbaBUAou (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:44:50 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45631 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755364AbaBTXvu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:51:50 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen , Johannes Berg Subject: [PATCH 3.12 11/82] mac80211: fix fragmentation code, particularly for encryption Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:51:54 -0800 Message-Id: <20140220235019.823383551@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.0 In-Reply-To: <20140220235019.483734207@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140220235019.483734207@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.61-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johannes Berg commit 338f977f4eb441e69bb9a46eaa0ac715c931a67f upstream. The "new" fragmentation code (since my rewrite almost 5 years ago) erroneously sets skb->len rather than using skb_trim() to adjust the length of the first fragment after copying out all the others. This leaves the skb tail pointer pointing to after where the data originally ended, and thus causes the encryption MIC to be written at that point, rather than where it belongs: immediately after the data. The impact of this is that if software encryption is done, then a) encryption doesn't work for the first fragment, the connection becomes unusable as the first fragment will never be properly verified at the receiver, the MIC is practically guaranteed to be wrong b) we leak up to 8 bytes of plaintext (!) of the packet out into the air This is only mitigated by the fact that many devices are capable of doing encryption in hardware, in which case this can't happen as the tail pointer is irrelevant in that case. Additionally, fragmentation is not used very frequently and would normally have to be configured manually. Fix this by using skb_trim() properly. Fixes: 2de8e0d999b8 ("mac80211: rewrite fragmentation") Reported-by: Jouni Malinen Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/mac80211/tx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c @@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ static int ieee80211_fragment(struct iee } /* adjust first fragment's length */ - skb->len = hdrlen + per_fragm; + skb_trim(skb, hdrlen + per_fragm); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/