Re: [PATCH] net: mac80211: cfg: enforce sanity checks for key_index in ieee80211_del_key()

[Anant Thazhemadam]

On 01/12/20 3:30 pm, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 15:26 +0530, Anant Thazhemadam wrote:
>> Currently, it is assumed that key_idx values that are passed to
>> ieee80211_del_key() are all valid indexes as is, and no sanity checks
>> are performed for it.
>> However, syzbot was able to trigger an array-index-out-of-bounds bug
>> by passing a key_idx value of 5, when the maximum permissible index
>> value is (NUM_DEFAULT_KEYS - 1).
>> Enforcing sanity checks helps in preventing this bug, or a similar
>> instance in the context of ieee80211_del_key() from occurring.
> I think we should do this more generally in cfg80211, like in
> nl80211_new_key() we do it via cfg80211_validate_key_settings().
>
> I suppose we cannot use the same function, but still, would be good to
> address this generally in nl80211 for all drivers.

Hello,

This gave me the idea of trying to use cfg80211_validate_key_settings()
directly in ieee80211_del_key(). I did try that out, tested it, and this bug
doesn't seem to be getting triggered anymore.
If this is okay, then I can send in a v2 soon. :)

If there is any reason that I'm missing as to why cfg80211_validate_key_settings()
cannot be used in this context, please let me know.

Thanks,
Anant