* [PATCH v3 0/3] wifi: carl9170: firmware trust boundary hardening
@ 2026-04-21 13:49 Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read Tristan Madani
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From: Tristan Madani @ 2026-04-21 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Lamparter
Cc: Johannes Berg, linux-wireless, linux-kernel, Tristan Madani
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
This series adds missing bounds checks for firmware-controlled fields
in the carl9170 USB driver.
Patch 1 bounds the cmd callback memcpy to prevent heap overflow from
an oversized firmware response. Patch 2 fixes an off-by-two in the TX
status handler. Patch 3 caps the failover copy to rx_failover_missing
bytes, using min_t per Christian Lamparter.
Changes in v3:
- Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch.
Changes in v2:
- Use min_t() instead of separate if-check in patch 3, per
Christian Lamparter.
Tristan Madani (3):
wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB
read
wifi: carl9170: fix OOB read from off-by-two in TX status handler
wifi: carl9170: fix buffer overflow in rx_stream failover path
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c | 7 +++++--
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
2.47.3
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* [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read
2026-04-21 13:49 [PATCH v3 0/3] wifi: carl9170: firmware trust boundary hardening Tristan Madani
@ 2026-04-21 13:49 ` Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] wifi: carl9170: fix OOB read from off-by-two in TX status handler Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] wifi: carl9170: fix buffer overflow in rx_stream failover path Tristan Madani
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From: Tristan Madani @ 2026-04-21 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Lamparter
Cc: Johannes Berg, linux-wireless, linux-kernel, Tristan Madani
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
When the firmware sends a command response with a length mismatch,
carl9170_cmd_callback() logs the mismatch and calls carl9170_restart()
but then falls through to memcpy(ar->readbuf, buffer + 4, len - 4).
Since len comes from the firmware and can exceed ar->readlen, this
copies more data than the readbuf was allocated for.
Bound the memcpy to min(len - 4, ar->readlen) so that the response
is still completed -- avoiding repeated restarts from queued garbage --
while preventing an overread past the response buffer.
Fixes: a84fab3cbfdc ("carl9170: 802.11 rx/tx processing and usb backend")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch to
produce valid index hashes (v2 had post-processed index lines).
Changes in v2:
- No code changes from v1.
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
index 6833430130f4c..f6855efc05c0f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ static void carl9170_cmd_callback(struct ar9170 *ar, u32 len, void *buffer)
spin_lock(&ar->cmd_lock);
if (ar->readbuf) {
if (len >= 4)
- memcpy(ar->readbuf, buffer + 4, len - 4);
+ memcpy(ar->readbuf, buffer + 4,
+ min_t(u32, len - 4, ar->readlen));
ar->readbuf = NULL;
}
--
2.47.3
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* [PATCH v3 2/3] wifi: carl9170: fix OOB read from off-by-two in TX status handler
2026-04-21 13:49 [PATCH v3 0/3] wifi: carl9170: firmware trust boundary hardening Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read Tristan Madani
@ 2026-04-21 13:49 ` Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] wifi: carl9170: fix buffer overflow in rx_stream failover path Tristan Madani
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tristan Madani @ 2026-04-21 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Lamparter
Cc: Johannes Berg, linux-wireless, linux-kernel, Tristan Madani
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
The bounds check in carl9170_tx_process_status() uses
`i > ((cmd->hdr.len / 2) + 1)` which is off by two, allowing
2 extra iterations past valid _tx_status entries when the firmware-
controlled hdr.ext exceeds hdr.len/2. Fix by using the correct
comparison `i >= (cmd->hdr.len / 2)`.
Fixes: a84fab3cbfdc ("carl9170: 802.11 rx/tx processing and usb backend")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch to
produce valid index hashes (v2 had post-processed index lines).
Changes in v2:
- No code changes from v1.
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
index 59caf1e4b1589..06aaf281655b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ void carl9170_tx_process_status(struct ar9170 *ar,
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < cmd->hdr.ext; i++) {
- if (WARN_ON(i > ((cmd->hdr.len / 2) + 1))) {
+ if (WARN_ON(i >= (cmd->hdr.len / 2))) {
print_hex_dump_bytes("UU:", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
(void *) cmd, cmd->hdr.len + 4);
break;
--
2.47.3
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* [PATCH v3 3/3] wifi: carl9170: fix buffer overflow in rx_stream failover path
2026-04-21 13:49 [PATCH v3 0/3] wifi: carl9170: firmware trust boundary hardening Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:49 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] wifi: carl9170: fix OOB read from off-by-two in TX status handler Tristan Madani
@ 2026-04-21 13:49 ` Tristan Madani
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tristan Madani @ 2026-04-21 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Lamparter
Cc: Johannes Berg, linux-wireless, linux-kernel, Tristan Madani
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
The failover continuation in carl9170_rx_stream() copies the full tlen
from the second USB transfer instead of capping at rx_failover_missing
bytes. When both transfers are near maximum size, the total exceeds the
65535-byte failover SKB, triggering skb_over_panic.
Limit the copy size to the missing byte count.
Fixes: a84fab3cbfdc ("carl9170: 802.11 rx/tx processing and usb backend")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch.
Changes in v2:
- Use min_t() instead of separate if-check, per Christian Lamparter.
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
index f6855efc05c0f..ccadc46385240 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
@@ -918,7 +918,9 @@ static void carl9170_rx_stream(struct ar9170 *ar, void *buf, unsigned int len)
}
}
- skb_put_data(ar->rx_failover, tbuf, tlen);
+ skb_put_data(ar->rx_failover, tbuf,
+ min_t(unsigned int, tlen,
+ ar->rx_failover_missing));
ar->rx_failover_missing -= tlen;
if (ar->rx_failover_missing <= 0) {
--
2.47.3
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