nl80211: ignore HT/VHT capabilities without QoS/WMM

commit 496fcc294daab18799e190c0264863d653588d1f upstream.

As HT/VHT depend heavily on QoS/WMM, it's not a good idea to
let userspace add clients that have HT/VHT but not QoS/WMM.
Since it does so in certain cases we've observed (client is
using HT IEs but not QoS/WMM) just ignore the HT/VHT info at
this point and don't pass it down to the drivers which might
unconditionally use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index be4ba21df4d81c4435f5f2e07bff7aef7e10a3df..d316a956823869696c55ad8589b4822070cace9a 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4266,6 +4266,16 @@ static int nl80211_new_station(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
        if (parse_station_flags(info, dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype, &params))
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       /* HT/VHT requires QoS, but if we don't have that just ignore HT/VHT
+        * as userspace might just pass through the capabilities from the IEs
+        * directly, rather than enforcing this restriction and returning an
+        * error in this case.
+        */
+       if (!(params.sta_flags_set & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_WME))) {
+               params.ht_capa = NULL;
+               params.vht_capa = NULL;
+       }
+
        /* When you run into this, adjust the code below for the new flag */
        BUILD_BUG_ON(NL80211_STA_FLAG_MAX != 7);