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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
	Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
	Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mwifiex: parse WMM IEs from hostapd for mwifiex AP
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:54:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473846871.4423.14.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357174561-28898-2-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> (sfid-20130103_015637_973661_B4551387)

Obviously this is a very old patch, but I was just looking at users of
cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() and realized you have a bug here:

> +	vendor_ie = cfg80211_find_vendor_ie(WLAN_OUI_MICROSOFT,
> +					    WLAN_OUI_TYPE_MICROSOFT_
> WMM,
> +					    params->beacon.tail,
> +					    params-
> >beacon.tail_len);
> +	if (vendor_ie) {
> +		wmm_ie = (struct ieee_types_header *)vendor_ie;
> +		memcpy(&bss_cfg->wmm_info, wmm_ie + 1,
> +		       sizeof(bss_cfg->wmm_info));
> +		priv->wmm_enabled = 1;

You need to check that the vendor_ie is actually long enough.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-03  0:56 [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: use correct htcapinfo for HT20 ibss network Bing Zhao
2013-01-03  0:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] mwifiex: parse WMM IEs from hostapd for mwifiex AP Bing Zhao
2016-09-14  9:54   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-09-20 13:56     ` Amitkumar Karwar

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