kernel/linux.git/net/wireless/util.c, branch v6.6.132

wifi: cfg80211: Fix bitrate calculation overflow for HE rates

2026-02-11T12:39:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit a3034bf0746d88a00cceda9541534a5721445a24 ] An integer overflow occurs in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() when calculating bitrates for high throughput HE configurations. For example, with 160 MHz bandwidth, HE-MCS 13, HE-NSS 4, and HE-GI 0, the multiplication (result * rate->nss) overflows the 32-bit 'result' variable before division by 8, leading to significantly underestimated bitrate values. The overflow occurs because the NSS multiplication operates on a 32-bit integer that cannot accommodate intermediate values exceeding 4,294,967,295. When overflow happens, the value wraps around, producing incorrect bitrates for high MCS and NSS combinations. Fix this by utilizing the 64-bit 'tmp' variable for the NSS multiplication and subsequent divisions via do_div(). This approach preserves full precision throughout the entire calculation, with the final value assigned to 'result' only after completing all operations. Signed-off-by: Veerendranath Jakkam Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260109-he_bitrate_overflow-v1-1-95575e466b6e@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks

2025-07-17T16:35:13+00:00

commit 737bb912ebbe4571195c56eba557c4d7315b26fb upstream. This patch is a mitigation to prevent the A-MSDU spoofing vulnerability for mesh networks. The initial update to the IEEE 802.11 standard, in response to the FragAttacks, missed this case (CVE-2025-27558). It can be considered a variant of CVE-2020-24588 but for mesh networks. This patch tries to detect if a standard MSDU was turned into an A-MSDU by an adversary. This is done by parsing a received A-MSDU as a standard MSDU, calculating the length of the Mesh Control header, and seeing if the 6 bytes after this header equal the start of an rfc1042 header. If equal, this is a strong indication of an ongoing attack attempt. This defense was tested with mac80211_hwsim against a mesh network that uses an empty Mesh Address Extension field, i.e., when four addresses are used, and when using a 12-byte Mesh Address Extension field, i.e., when six addresses are used. Functionality of normal MSDUs and A-MSDUs was also tested, and confirmed working, when using both an empty and 12-byte Mesh Address Extension field. It was also tested with mac80211_hwsim that A-MSDU attacks in non-mesh networks keep being detected and prevented. Note that the vulnerability being patched, and the defense being implemented, was also discussed in the following paper and in the following IEEE 802.11 presentation: https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/wisec2025.pdf https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/25/11-25-0949-00-000m-a-msdu-mesh-spoof-protection.docx Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616004635.224344-1-Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he()

2024-08-03T06:53:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6 ] Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth. Fixes: c4cbaf7973a7 ("cfg80211: Add support for HE") Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang Link: https://msgid.link/20240606020653.33205-3-quic_bqiang@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: fix typo in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he()

2024-08-03T06:53:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9ee0d44f055276fe2802b2f65058e920853f4f99 ] rates_996 is mistakenly written as rates_969, fix it. Fixes: c4cbaf7973a7 ("cfg80211: Add support for HE") Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang Link: https://msgid.link/20240606020653.33205-2-quic_bqiang@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: Lock wiphy in cfg80211_get_station

2024-06-21T12:38:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 642f89daa34567d02f312d03e41523a894906dae ] Wiphy should be locked before calling rdev_get_station() (see lockdep assert in ieee80211_get_station()). This fixes the following kernel NULL dereference: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000050 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000006 EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006 CM = 0, WnR = 0 user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000003001000 [0000000000000050] pgd=0800000002dca003, p4d=0800000002dca003, pud=08000000028e9003, pmd=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: netconsole dwc3_meson_g12a dwc3_of_simple dwc3 ip_gre gre ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath CPU: 0 PID: 1091 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 6.4.0-02144-g565f9a3a7911-dirty #705 Hardware name: RPT (r1) (DT) Workqueue: bat_events batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : ath10k_sta_statistics+0x10/0x2dc [ath10k_core] lr : sta_set_sinfo+0xcc/0xbd4 sp : ffff000007b43ad0 x29: ffff000007b43ad0 x28: ffff0000071fa900 x27: ffff00000294ca98 x26: ffff000006830880 x25: ffff000006830880 x24: ffff00000294c000 x23: 0000000000000001 x22: ffff000007b43c90 x21: ffff800008898acc x20: ffff00000294c6e8 x19: ffff000007b43c90 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 445946354d552d78 x16: 62661f7200000000 x15: 57464f445946354d x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 00000000000000e3 x12: d5f0acbcebea978e x11: 00000000000000e3 x10: 000000010048fe41 x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffff000007b43d90 x7 : 000000007a1e2125 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : ffff0000024e0900 x4 : ffff800000a0250c x3 : ffff000007b43c90 x2 : ffff00000294ca98 x1 : ffff000006831920 x0 : 0000000000000000 Call trace: ath10k_sta_statistics+0x10/0x2dc [ath10k_core] sta_set_sinfo+0xcc/0xbd4 ieee80211_get_station+0x2c/0x44 cfg80211_get_station+0x80/0x154 batadv_v_elp_get_throughput+0x138/0x1fc batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update+0x1c/0xa4 process_one_work+0x1ec/0x414 worker_thread+0x70/0x46c kthread+0xdc/0xe0 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Code: a9bb7bfd 910003fd a90153f3 f9411c40 (f9402814) This happens because STA has time to disconnect and reconnect before batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update() delayed work gets scheduled. In this situation, ath10k_sta_state() can be in the middle of resetting arsta data when the work queue get chance to be scheduled and ends up accessing it. Locking wiphy prevents that. Fixes: 7406353d43c8 ("cfg80211: implement cfg80211_get_station cfg80211 API") Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel Reviewed-by: Nicolas Escande Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli Link: https://msgid.link/983b24a6a176e0800c01aedcd74480d9b551cb13.1716046653.git.repk@triplefau.lt Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: check A-MSDU format more carefully

2024-04-13T11:07:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9ad7974856926129f190ffbe3beea78460b3b7cc ] If it looks like there's another subframe in the A-MSDU but the header isn't fully there, we can end up reading data out of bounds, only to discard later. Make this a bit more careful and check if the subframe header can even be present. Reported-by: syzbot+d050d437fe47d479d210@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://msgid.link/20240226203405.a731e2c95e38.I82ce7d8c0cc8970ce29d0a39fdc07f1ffc425be4@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: fix receiving mesh packets without RFC1042 header

2023-07-13T01:03:40+00:00

Fix ethernet header length field after stripping the mesh header Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CT5GNZSK28AI.2K6M69OXM9RW5@syracuse/ Fixes: 986e43b19ae9 ("wifi: mac80211: fix receiving A-MSDU frames on mesh interfaces") Reported-and-tested-by: Nicolas Escande Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230711115052.68430-1-nbd@nbd.name Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge wireless into wireless-next

2023-06-19T10:04:16+00:00

There are some locking changes that will later otherwise cause conflicts, so merge wireless into wireless-next to avoid those. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: S1G rate information and calculations

2023-06-14T09:57:26+00:00

Increase the size of S1G rate_info flags to support S1G and add flags for new S1G MCS and the supported bandwidths. Also, include S1G rate information to netlink STA rate message. Lastly, add rate calculation function for S1G MCS. Signed-off-by: Gilad Itzkovitch Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230518000723.991912-1-gilad.itzkovitch@morsemicro.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: remove links only on AP

2023-06-09T11:30:53+00:00

Since links are only controlled by userspace via cfg80211 in AP mode, also only remove them from the driver in that case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608163202.ed65b94916fa.I2458c46888284cc5ce30715fe642bc5fc4340c8f@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg