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From: Arend Van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
To: Dokyung Song <dokyung.song@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jisoo Jang <jisoo.jang@yonsei.ac.kr>,
	Minsuk Kang <linuxlovemin@yonsei.ac.kr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Fixes potential buffer overflow in 'brcmf_fweh_event_worker'
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:41:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3e67383-6f34-825b-8a2c-1c6decc44576@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <649de84e-6f9a-5c6b-9a94-a7c6462abd1f@gmail.com>

On 10/20/2022 10:39 AM, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>> -        else
>> +        } else {
>> +            if (emsg.bsscfgidx >= BRCMF_MAX_IFS) {
>> +                bphy_err(drvr, "invalid bsscfg index: %u\n", 
>> emsg.bsscfgidx);
>> +                goto event_free;
>> +            }
> 
> probably better to do the validation before any other handling. So right 
> after converting the event message at line 245
> 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c#L245 

Actually, if we ignore the event message we can avoid the whole 
conversion as well doing the validation before the convert.

Regards,
Arend

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-20  1:49 [PATCH] brcmfmac: Fixes potential buffer overflow in 'brcmf_fweh_event_worker' Dokyung Song
2022-10-20  8:39 ` Arend Van Spriel
2022-10-20  8:41   ` Arend Van Spriel [this message]

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