wifi: cfg80211: fix BSS refcounting bugs
There are multiple refcounting bugs related to multi-BSSID: - In bss_ref_get(), if the BSS has a hidden_beacon_bss, then the bss pointer is overwritten before checking for the transmitted BSS, which is clearly wrong. Fix this by using the bss_from_pub() macro. - In cfg80211_bss_update() we copy the transmitted_bss pointer from tmp into new, but then if we release new, we'll unref it erroneously. We already set the pointer and ref it, but need to NULL it since it was copied from the tmp data. - In cfg80211_inform_single_bss_data(), if adding to the non- transmitted list fails, we unlink the BSS and yet still we return it, but this results in returning an entry without a reference. We shouldn't return it anyway if it was broken enough to not get added there. This fixes CVE-2022-42720. Reported-by: Sönke Huster <shuster@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de> Tested-by: Sönke Huster <shuster@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de> Fixes: a3584f56 ("cfg80211: Properly track transmitting and non-transmitting BSS") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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