Thread (152 messages) 152 messages, 21 authors, 2021-08-13

Re: [PATCH 02/64] mac80211: Use flex-array for radiotap header bitmap

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-28 23:33:26
Also in: dri-devel, linux-block, linux-hardening, linux-kbuild, linux-staging, linux-wireless, lkml
Subsystem: 802.11 (including cfg80211/nl80211), mac80211, the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:35:56AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 01:57:53PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
quoted
[...]
-	/**
-	 * @it_present: (first) present word
-	 */
-	__le32 it_present;
+	union {
+		/**
+		 * @it_present: (first) present word
+		 */
+		__le32 it_present;
+
+		struct {
+			/* The compiler makes it difficult to overlap
+			 * a flex-array with an existing singleton,
+			 * so we're forced to add an empty named
+			 * variable here.
+			 */
+			struct { } __unused;
+
+			/**
+			 * @bitmap: all presence bitmaps
+			 */
+			__le32 bitmap[];
+		};
+	};
 } __packed;
This patch is so confusing...

Btw, after the end of the __le32 data there is a bunch of other le64,
u8 and le16 data so the struct is not accurate or complete.

It might be better to re-write this as something like this:
diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
index c0854933e24f..0cb5719e9668 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ struct ieee80211_radiotap_header {
 	/**
 	 * @it_present: (first) present word
 	 */
-	__le32 it_present;
+	struct {
+		__le32 it_present;
+		char buff[];
+	} data;
 } __packed;
Ah-ha, got it:
diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
index c0854933e24f..6b7274edb3c6 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ struct ieee80211_radiotap_header {
 	 * @it_present: (first) present word
 	 */
 	__le32 it_present;
+	/**
+	 * @it_optional: all remaining presence bitmaps
+	 */
+	__le32 it_optional[];
 } __packed;
 
 /* version is always 0 */
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 2563473b5cf1..b6a960d37278 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -359,7 +359,13 @@ ieee80211_add_rx_radiotap_header(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 
 	put_unaligned_le32(it_present_val, it_present);
 
-	pos = (void *)(it_present + 1);
+	/*
+	 * This references through an offset into it_optional[] rather
+	 * than via it_present otherwise later uses of pos will cause
+	 * the compiler to think we have walked past the end of the
+	 * struct member.
+	 */
+	pos = (void *)&rthdr->it_optional[it_present - rthdr->it_optional];
 
 	/* the order of the following fields is important */
 
diff --git a/net/wireless/radiotap.c b/net/wireless/radiotap.c
index 36f1b59a78bf..081f0a3bdfe1 100644
--- a/net/wireless/radiotap.c
+++ b/net/wireless/radiotap.c
@@ -115,10 +115,9 @@ int ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init(
 	iterator->_max_length = get_unaligned_le16(&radiotap_header->it_len);
 	iterator->_arg_index = 0;
 	iterator->_bitmap_shifter = get_unaligned_le32(&radiotap_header->it_present);
-	iterator->_arg = (uint8_t *)radiotap_header + sizeof(*radiotap_header);
+	iterator->_arg = (uint8_t *)radiotap_header->it_optional;
 	iterator->_reset_on_ext = 0;
-	iterator->_next_bitmap = &radiotap_header->it_present;
-	iterator->_next_bitmap++;
+	iterator->_next_bitmap = radiotap_header->it_optional;
 	iterator->_vns = vns;
 	iterator->current_namespace = &radiotap_ns;
 	iterator->is_radiotap_ns = 1;
-- 
Kees Cook
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