Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 14/60] mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element

Sasha Levin
2019-07-10T14:51:16Z

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 03:58:49PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 5:49 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 685c9b7750bfacd6fc1db50d86579980593b7869 ]
>>
>> Currently mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie() implicitly assumes that
>> the source descriptor entries contain the enough size for each type
>> and performs copying without checking the source size. This may lead
>> to read over boundary.
>>
>> Fix this by putting the source size check in appropriate places.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>
>For the record, this fixup is still aiming for 5.2, correcting some
>potential mistakes in this patch:
>
>63d7ef36103d mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs
>
>So you might want to hold off a bit, and grab them both.

I see that 63d7ef36103d didn't make it into 5.2, so I'll just drop this
for now.

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Thanks,
Sasha