* [PATCH] wifi: wfx: reserve zeroed slack for the bus alignment padding on TX
@ 2026-11-08 12:43 Chengyu Liu
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From: Chengyu Liu @ 2026-11-08 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless; +Cc: jerome.pouiller, kvalo, Chengyu Liu, stable
tx_helper() rounds the transfer length up to the bus alignment (4
bytes for SPI, 64 bytes for SDIO) and passes the rounded length to
wfx_data_write(), which reads the padding from the supplied buffer.
However, none of the TX paths guarantees that this space is available
and zeroed. wfx_alloc_hif() allocates only
sizeof(struct wfx_hif_msg) + body_len, wfx_send_hif_msg_write() copies
exactly count bytes with memdup_user(), and data frames are sent
directly from the skb, whose tailroom is not guaranteed to be
sufficient or zeroed.
so the padding is an out-of-bounds read leaking heap data to the
device, the same defect class as the cw1200 fix "wifi: cw1200: fix TX
padding OOB read leaking heap data to device".
Reserve WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK (64, the SDIO block size; SPI only needs
4) zeroed bytes at the end of every TX buffer: extend the two exact
allocations, and in wfx_tx_inner() ensure the skb tailroom and zero
it, re-deriving hdr since pskb_expand_head() may reallocate the
buffer. Cloned skbs are uncloned as well, since the slack memset
must not modify shared data, following the same check used by
__skb_pad().
Found by static analysis.
Fixes: 4a5fb1bbcdf1 ("wfx: get out from the staging area")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7982b4a7e64f74e2068790ec389ca680a081f730@linux.dev/
Signed-off-by: Chengyu Liu <lui2012qwq@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/data_tx.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/debug.c | 11 ++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/hif_tx.c | 4 +++-
drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/wfx.h | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/data_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/data_tx.c
index a44a7403ce..985eba3378 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/data_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/data_tx.c
@@ -357,8 +357,22 @@ static int wfx_tx_inner(struct wfx_vif *wvif, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, struct
WARN(skb_headroom(skb) < wmsg_len, "not enough space in skb");
WARN(offset & 1, "attempt to transmit an unaligned frame");
skb_put(skb, tx_priv->icv_size);
+ /*
+ * The bus layer pads the transfer up to the bus alignment and
+ * the padding is transferred from the skb. Guarantee tailroom
+ * for the slack, uncloning the skb if needed: the memset below
+ * must not write into a shared buffer.
+ */
+ if (skb_cloned(skb) || skb_tailroom(skb) < WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK) {
+ int ntail = WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK - skb_tailroom(skb);
+
+ if (pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, max(ntail, 0), GFP_ATOMIC))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ memset(skb_tail_pointer(skb), 0, WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK);
skb_push(skb, wmsg_len);
memset(skb->data, 0, wmsg_len);
+ hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)(skb->data + wmsg_len);
hif_msg = (struct wfx_hif_msg *)skb->data;
hif_msg->len = cpu_to_le16(skb->len);
hif_msg->id = HIF_REQ_ID_TX;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/debug.c
index 454ec59fdc..f87f0e059c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/debug.c
@@ -255,9 +255,14 @@ static ssize_t wfx_send_hif_msg_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user
* memory pattern may help user.
*/
memset(context->reply, 0xFF, sizeof(context->reply));
- request = memdup_user(user_buf, count);
- if (IS_ERR(request))
- return PTR_ERR(request);
+ /* Reserve room for the bus alignment slack */
+ request = kzalloc(count + WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!request)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ if (copy_from_user(request, user_buf, count)) {
+ kfree(request);
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
if (le16_to_cpu(request->len) != count) {
kfree(request);
return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/hif_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/hif_tx.c
index 9efb108bd8..45db1cf7f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/hif_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/hif_tx.c
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ static void wfx_fill_header(struct wfx_hif_msg *hif, int if_id, unsigned int cmd
static void *wfx_alloc_hif(size_t body_len, struct wfx_hif_msg **hif)
{
- *hif = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wfx_hif_msg) + body_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ /* The kzalloc() also zeroes the bus alignment slack */
+ *hif = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wfx_hif_msg) + body_len +
+ WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK, GFP_KERNEL);
if (*hif)
return (*hif)->body;
else
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/wfx.h b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/wfx.h
index bd0df2e1ea..6a6c8a47a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/wfx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/silabs/wfx/wfx.h
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@
#define USEC_PER_TXOP 32 /* see struct ieee80211_tx_queue_params */
#define USEC_PER_TU 1024
+/*
+ * The bus layer pads TX transfers up to the bus alignment and the
+ * padding is transferred from the message buffer, so every buffer
+ * handed to tx_helper() must carry this much zeroed slack (the SDIO
+ * block size is 64 bytes, SPI transfers are aligned to 4).
+ */
+#define WFX_BUS_ALIGN_SLACK 64
+
struct wfx_hwbus_ops;
struct wfx_dev {
--
2.25.1
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