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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Anirudh Rayabharam <mail@anirudhrb.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	syzbot+b2645b5bf1512b81fa22@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: correctly handle zero length frames
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:36:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3589e399e179b389e90df36acb67ae1ec7dea97.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210610161916.9307-1-mail@anirudhrb.com>

On Thu, 2021-06-10 at 21:49 +0530, Anirudh Rayabharam wrote:
> syzbot, using KMSAN, has reported an uninit-value access in
> hwsim_cloned_frame_received_nl(). This is happening because frame_data_len
> is 0. The code doesn't detect this case and blindly tries to read the
> frame's header.
> 
> Fix this by bailing out in case frame_data_len is 0.

This really seems quite pointless - you should bail out if the frame is
too short for what we need to do, not just when it's 0.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-10 16:19 [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: correctly handle zero length frames Anirudh Rayabharam
2021-06-18  9:36 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2021-06-23  7:26   ` Anirudh Rayabharam

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