[PATCH] P2P: Add error message for invalid PIN

Masashi Honma masashi.honma at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 06:49:58 EST 2012


2012/3/5 Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:09:37PM +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
>> The second argument of p2p_connect command is "pin", "pbc" or PIN number.
>>
>> But PIN number is not checked. So the user typed "pbd" can not
>> recognize he mistyped.
>> Because the command returns "OK".
>>
>> So I made a patch adds a error message.
>
> This may be a bit too restrictive conditions. While 4-digit PINs are not
> very commonly used, I think that they would be allowed for P2P use
> cases. As such, I don't think I can apply this patch in its current
> form. In addition, user-generated 8-digit PINs are not required to
> include a checksum digit, so the use of wps_pin_valid() may not actually
> be valid for some use cases.
>
> I would be fine with a change that verifies that the PIN value is either
> a 4-digit or 8-digit number, but I'm not sure whether we can make this
> command any more restrictive than that. Please note that the separate
> wps_check_pin command was added for this same reason instead of making
> wps_pin command validate the PIN values.

Thanks for your advice. I relaxed the restriction of new patch.

>
>
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>
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Signed-hostap: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma at gmail.com>

diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/ctrl_iface.c b/wpa_supplicant/ctrl_iface.c
index 11f4674..f98d403 100644
--- a/wpa_supplicant/ctrl_iface.c
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/ctrl_iface.c
@@ -2696,6 +2696,7 @@ static int p2p_ctrl_connect(struct
wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, char *cmd,
 	u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
 	char *pos, *pos2;
 	char *pin = NULL;
+	char *end;
 	enum p2p_wps_method wps_method;
 	int new_pin;
 	int ret;
@@ -2704,6 +2705,7 @@ static int p2p_ctrl_connect(struct
wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, char *cmd,
 	int auth;
 	int go_intent = -1;
 	int freq = 0;
+	long int val;

 	/* <addr> <"pbc" | "pin" | PIN> [label|display|keypad] [persistent]
 	 * [join] [auth] [go_intent=<0..15>] [freq=<in MHz>] */
@@ -2750,6 +2752,13 @@ static int p2p_ctrl_connect(struct
wpa_supplicant *wpa_s, char *cmd,
 			if (os_strncmp(pos, "display", 7) == 0)
 				wps_method = WPS_PIN_DISPLAY;
 		}
+		val = strtol(pin, &end, 10);
+		val = val; // workaround for a compiler warning
+		if ((os_strlen(pin) != 4 && os_strlen(pin) != 8) ||
+		    *end != '\0') {
+			os_memcpy(buf, "FAIL-INVALID-PIN\n", 17);
+			return 17;
+		}
 	}

 	new_pin = wpas_p2p_connect(wpa_s, addr, pin, wps_method,


Regards,
Masashi Honma.


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