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| author | Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com> | 2026-04-22 01:45:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2026-04-27 13:40:54 +0300 |
| commit | 381cd547bc6e35a610c5dfebe554d891eea40f03 (patch) | |
| tree | efea62684c9ae0c0383e9964e2938485176f1c5c | |
| parent | 3994b4afd521d60e47e012fe2ed7b606aaec370b (diff) | |
| download | linux-381cd547bc6e35a610c5dfebe554d891eea40f03.tar.xz | |
wifi: nl80211: require admin perm on SET_PMK / DEL_PMK
NL80211_CMD_SET_PMK and NL80211_CMD_DEL_PMK manage the offloaded
4-way-handshake PMK state used by drivers advertising
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_4WAY_HANDSHAKE_STA_1X. The only in-tree
driver that wires up both ->set_pmk / ->del_pmk and advertises
the feature today is brcmfmac, so the practical reach of this
patch is narrow.
Both ops were introduced without a .flags gate, so the generic
netlink layer dispatches them to an unprivileged caller instead
of rejecting with -EPERM at the permission check. Every other
connection-state op in the adjacent block (CONNECT, ASSOCIATE,
AUTHENTICATE, SET_KEY, ...) carries GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM; SET_PMK
/ DEL_PMK were introduced without the flag in 2017 and left
unchanged by later refactors. Johannes checked the original
Intel submission history and confirmed there is no admin check
in any prior revision either, so this seems likely to be a
simple oversight rather than an intentional carve-out.
Require GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM so the genl layer performs the same
capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check as its siblings. wpa_supplicant
already needs CAP_NET_ADMIN for every other nl80211 op it issues,
so supplicant operation is unaffected. The worst case the missing
gate enables today is an unprivileged local process on a
multi-user system invalidating the offloaded PMK state of another
user's 4-way-handshake session, forcing a full EAP re-auth on the
next reconnect.
Verified in UML: an unprivileged probe (uid=1000) sees
SET_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST (sibling op with GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
return -EPERM on both pre- and post-fix kernels, while SET_PMK /
DEL_PMK return -ENODEV from nl80211_pre_doit()'s wdev lookup pre-
fix (proving dispatch crossed the genl permission check) and
-EPERM post-fix (rejected at the genl layer as intended).
Suggested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Fixes: 3a00df5707b6 ("cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for 802.1X")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421224552.4044147-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index f334cdef8958..67088804dcc7 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -19828,6 +19828,7 @@ static const struct genl_small_ops nl80211_small_ops[] = { .cmd = NL80211_CMD_SET_PMK, .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP, .doit = nl80211_set_pmk, + .flags = GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM, .internal_flags = IFLAGS(NL80211_FLAG_NEED_NETDEV_UP | NL80211_FLAG_CLEAR_SKB), }, @@ -19835,6 +19836,7 @@ static const struct genl_small_ops nl80211_small_ops[] = { .cmd = NL80211_CMD_DEL_PMK, .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP, .doit = nl80211_del_pmk, + .flags = GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM, .internal_flags = IFLAGS(NL80211_FLAG_NEED_NETDEV_UP), }, { |