From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Now that we have limited recursive policy validation to avoid
stack overflows, change nl80211 to actually link the nested
policy (linking back to itself eventually), which allows some
code cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 10 ++++------
net/wireless/nl80211.h | 2 --
net/wireless/pmsr.c | 3 +--
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 692bcd35f809..57c618b6cb0e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ static int validate_ie_attr(const struct nlattr *attr,
}
/* policy for the attributes */
+static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR];
+
static const struct nla_policy
nl80211_ftm_responder_policy[NL80211_FTM_RESP_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[NL80211_FTM_RESP_ATTR_ENABLED] = { .type = NLA_FLAG, },
@@ -296,11 +298,7 @@ nl80211_pmsr_req_attr_policy[NL80211_PMSR_REQ_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
static const struct nla_policy
nl80211_psmr_peer_attr_policy[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_ADDR] = NLA_POLICY_ETH_ADDR,
- /*
- * we could specify this again to be the top-level policy,
- * but that would open us up to recursion problems ...
- */
- [NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_CHAN] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
+ [NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_CHAN] = NLA_POLICY_NESTED(nl80211_policy),
[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_REQ] =
NLA_POLICY_NESTED(nl80211_pmsr_req_attr_policy),
[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_RESP] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
@@ -347,7 +345,7 @@ nl80211_tid_config_attr_policy[NL80211_TID_CONFIG_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, NL80211_TID_CONFIG_DISABLE),
};
-const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
+static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR] = {
[0] = { .strict_start_type = NL80211_ATTR_HE_OBSS_PD },
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_NAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING,
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.h b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
index a41e94a49a89..d3e8e426c486 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.h
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
int nl80211_init(void);
void nl80211_exit(void);
-extern const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NUM_NL80211_ATTR];
-
void *nl80211hdr_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq,
int flags, u8 cmd);
bool nl80211_put_sta_rate(struct sk_buff *msg, struct rate_info *info,
diff --git a/net/wireless/pmsr.c b/net/wireless/pmsr.c
index 63dc8023447f..a95c79d18349 100644
--- a/net/wireless/pmsr.c
+++ b/net/wireless/pmsr.c
@@ -187,10 +187,9 @@ static int pmsr_parse_peer(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
/* reuse info->attrs */
memset(info->attrs, 0, sizeof(*info->attrs) * (NL80211_ATTR_MAX + 1));
- /* need to validate here, we don't want to have validation recursion */
err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(info->attrs, NL80211_ATTR_MAX,
tb[NL80211_PMSR_PEER_ATTR_CHAN],
- nl80211_policy, info->extack);
+ NULL, info->extack);
if (err)
return err;
--
2.25.1