Merge tag 'mac80211-for-davem-2016-04-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne...

Johannes Berg says:

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This has just the single fix from Dmitry Ivanov, adding the missing
netlink notifier family check to avoid the socket close DoS problem.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 98c924260b3d312055c598255cff8478bccba1e9..056a7307862b78f5f0b2013b41c2686b5de18064 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -13216,7 +13216,7 @@ static int nl80211_netlink_notify(struct notifier_block * nb,
        struct wireless_dev *wdev;
        struct cfg80211_beacon_registration *reg, *tmp;
 
-       if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE)
+       if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE || notify->protocol != NETLINK_GENERIC)
                return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
        rcu_read_lock();