nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification
commit 8f815cdd upstream. A non-privileged user can create a netlink socket with the same port_id as used by an existing open nl80211 netlink socket (e.g. as used by a hostapd process) with a different protocol number. Closing this socket will then lead to the notification going to nl80211's socket release notification handler, and possibly cause an action such as removing a virtual interface. Fix this issue by checking that the netlink protocol is NETLINK_GENERIC. Since generic netlink has no notifier chain of its own, we can't fix the problem more generically. Fixes: 026331c4 ("cfg80211/mac80211: allow registering for and sending action frames") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivanov <dima@ubnt.com> [rewrite commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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