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From: Slawomir Stepien <sst@poczta.fm>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: verify if AP_VLAN belongs to the correct AP
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqehVpLak6FWEpDS@nr200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b3fd802df431355eb0784a79069e46a4e935e02.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On wrz 14, 2026 08:27, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-09-10 at 10:04 +0200, Slawomir Stepien wrote:
> > The get_vlan() only checks if NL80211_ATTR_STA_VLAN target is an
> > AP/AP_VLAN/P2P_GO interface on the same wiphy. It has no notion of which
> > specific AP a given AP_VLAN belongs to. Without a check in mac80211
> > itself, NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION and NL80211_CMD_SET_STATION could
> > add/move a station onto an AP_VLAN interface that actually belongs to a
> > different AP on the same wiphy.
> > 
> > Reject the userspace request unless the VLAN interface's bss pointer
> > matches the bss of the interface the station is being added to/belongs
> > to.
> 
> Hmm. I thought I mentioned earlier that AP_VLAN belongs to AP whenever
> their addresses are the same - doesn't that mean this validation can be
> in cfg80211?

Yeah, my bad, I've fixed on mac80211 in my mind. Let me check how I can compare the addresseses in
get_vlan().

-- 
Slawomir Stepien

      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-14  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-10  8:04 Slawomir Stepien
2026-09-14  6:27 ` Johannes Berg
2026-09-14  7:25   ` Slawomir Stepien [this message]

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