From: Jeff Chen <chunfan.chen@gmail.com>
To: Aamir Ahmed <elb12345@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: nxpwifi: validate variable IE lengths in beacon parser
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:09:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqNw+bRxpHR0h8nb@nxpwireless-Inspiron-14-Plus-7440> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AS8P251MB00017FB955BDEFEEA1EA579BC8B32@AS8P251MB0001.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Sun, Sep 06, 2026 at 12:53:05 PM +0100, Aamir Ahmed wrote:
> nxpwifi_update_bss_desc_with_ie() stores pointers to the HT, VHT and HE
> capability and operation elements, to the operating mode notification
> and to the 20/40 BSS coexistence element, taken from a beacon or probe
> response, without checking that each element is long enough for the
> fixed size structure or field the driver later dereferences it as.
>
> Fixes: 73b01e57ed3e ("wifi: nxp: add nxpwifi driver for IW61x") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: LLM (Claude Code) Signed-off-by: Aamir Ahmed <elb12345@hotmail.co.uk> ---
Thanks for the patch.
Since nxpwifi has not appeared in any released kernel yet,
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org does not seem necessary.
The changelog looks much longer than needed.
Jeff
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2026-09-06 11:53 [PATCH] wifi: nxpwifi: validate variable IE lengths in beacon parser Aamir Ahmed
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