net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks

Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.

The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.

A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.

A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.

In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.

To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.

I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index d46da6cb92e..da3163d15ef 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
 	int noblock = flags&MSG_DONTWAIT;
 	size_t copied;
-	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	struct sk_buff *skb, *frag __maybe_unused = NULL;
 	int err;
 
 	if (flags&MSG_OOB)
@@ -1373,6 +1373,35 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
 	if (skb == NULL)
 		goto out;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
+	if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)) {
+		bool need_compat = !!(flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT);
+
+		/*
+		 * If this skb has a frag_list, then here that means that
+		 * we will have to use the frag_list skb for compat tasks
+		 * and the regular skb for non-compat tasks.
+		 *
+		 * The skb might (and likely will) be cloned, so we can't
+		 * just reset frag_list and go on with things -- we need to
+		 * keep that. For the compat case that's easy -- simply get
+		 * a reference to the compat skb and free the regular one
+		 * including the frag. For the non-compat case, we need to
+		 * avoid sending the frag to the user -- so assign NULL but
+		 * restore it below before freeing the skb.
+		 */
+		if (need_compat) {
+			struct sk_buff *compskb = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
+			skb_get(compskb);
+			kfree_skb(skb);
+			skb = compskb;
+		} else {
+			frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list;
+			skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
+		}
+	}
+#endif
+
 	msg->msg_namelen = 0;
 
 	copied = skb->len;
@@ -1403,6 +1432,11 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
 	siocb->scm->creds = *NETLINK_CREDS(skb);
 	if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
 		copied = skb->len;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
+	skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = frag;
+#endif
+
 	skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);
 
 	if (nlk->cb && atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf / 2)