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From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
To: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org>, franky.lin@broadcom.com
Cc: brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mnissler@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] brcmfmac: Avoid possible out-of-bounds read
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 09:45:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be986d32-dabc-2638-3d38-abe85df4a5b8@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170908191342.28053-2-cernekee@chromium.org>

On 08-09-17 21:13, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> In brcmf_p2p_notify_rx_mgmt_p2p_probereq(), chanspec is assigned before
> the length of rxframe is validated.  This could lead to uninitialized
> data being printed in a debug message.  Since we already have a

The debug message is after the length validation so there is not 
unintialized data being printed.

> perfectly good endian-swapped copy of rxframe->chanspec in ch.chspec,
> and ch.chspec is not modified by decchspec(), avoid the extra
> assignment and use ch.chspec in the debug print.

However, there is no real for the chanspec variable for the given reason 
so...

Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Suggested-by: Mattias Nissler <mnissler@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-09  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08 19:13 [PATCH 0/3] New brcmfmac bounds checks Kevin Cernekee
2017-09-08 19:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] brcmfmac: Avoid possible out-of-bounds read Kevin Cernekee
2017-09-09  7:45   ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2017-09-08 19:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] brcmfmac: Don't print out-of-bounds event data Kevin Cernekee
2017-09-09  8:12   ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-08 19:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] brcmfmac: Add check for short event packets Kevin Cernekee
2017-09-09  8:14   ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-11  9:19   ` Mattias Nissler
2017-09-11 19:09     ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-12 15:04       ` Kevin Cernekee
2017-09-12 19:16         ` Arend van Spriel

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