kernel/linux.git/net/wireless, branch v6.18.42

wifi: cfg80211: bound element ID read when checking non-inheritance

2026-08-03T09:21:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit cb8afea4655ff004fa7feee825d5c79783525383 ] cfg80211_is_element_inherited() reads the first data octet of the candidate element (id = elem->data[0]) to look it up in an extension non-inheritance list. It does so after testing elem->id, but without verifying that the element actually has a data octet. A zero-length extension element (WLAN_EID_EXTENSION with length 0) therefore makes it read one octet past the end of the element. _ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() runs this check for every element of a frame once a non-inheritance context exists -- e.g. while parsing a per-STA profile of a Multi-Link element in a (re)association response, or a non-transmitted BSS profile -- so a crafted frame from an AP can trigger a one-octet slab-out-of-bounds read during element parsing: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cfg80211_is_element_inherited Read of size 1 ... in net/wireless/scan.c Return early (treat the element as inherited) when an extension element carries no data, mirroring the existing handling of empty ID lists. The bug was found by fuzzing ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() under KASAN. Fixes: f7dacfb11475 ("cfg80211: support non-inheritance element") Signed-off-by: HE WEI (ギカク) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707094828.16465-1-skyexpoc@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: reject unsupported PMSR FTM location requests

2026-08-03T09:21:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 69ef6a7ec277f16d216be8da2b3cbe872786c999 ] PMSR FTM location request flags are syntactically valid, but they must be rejected when the device capability does not advertise support for them. Return an error immediately after rejecting unsupported LCI or civic location request bits so the request cannot reach the driver. Fixes: 9bb7e0f24e7e7 ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8 Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612133710.93544-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: validate PMSR FTM preamble range

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[ Upstream commit 36230936468f0ba4930e94aef496fc229d4bb951 ] PMSR FTM request parsing accepts preamble values outside the enumerated nl80211 preamble range. Reject out-of-range values before using them in the parser capability bit test using the policy. Fixes: 9bb7e0f24e7e7 ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8 Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612133703.93274-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com [drop unnecessary check] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: validate PMSR measurement type data

2026-08-03T09:21:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 41aa973eb05922848dded26875c55ef982ac1c49 ] PMSR request parsing accepts missing or duplicated measurement type entries in NL80211_PMSR_REQ_ATTR_DATA. Track whether one measurement type was already provided, reject a second one immediately, and return an error if the request data block contains no measurement type at all. Fixes: 9bb7e0f24e7e7 ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8 Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612133656.92900-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: nl80211: constrain MBSSID TX link ID range

2026-08-03T09:21:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 172f06023669f0a96d32511669ff45c600731380 ] MBSSID transmitted-profile link IDs are valid only in the range 0..IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS - 1. Constrain the nl80211 policy to reject out-of-range values during attribute validation. Fixes: 37523c3c47b3 ("wifi: nl80211: add link id of transmitted profile for MLO MBSSID") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8 Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612131854.43575-4-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: nl80211: validate nested MBSSID IE blobs

2026-08-03T09:21:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7f4b01812323443b55e4c65381c9dc851ff009e3 ] Validate each nested NL80211_ATTR_MBSSID_ELEMS entry as a well-formed information-element stream before storing it for beacon construction. RNR parsing already validates each nested blob with validate_ie_attr() before storing it. Apply the same syntactic IE validation to MBSSID entries before counting and copying their data and length pointers. Fixes: dc1e3cb8da8b ("nl80211: MBSSID and EMA support in AP mode") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8 Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612131854.43575-3-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: derive S1G beacon TSF from S1G fields

2026-08-03T09:21:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4e5a4641e7b4763656336b7891d01359aaf363cd ] cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data() parses S1G beacons with the extension frame layout, but still reads the TSF from the regular probe response layout after the S1G branch. For S1G beacons that reads bytes at the regular management-frame timestamp offset instead of the S1G timestamp. Use the 32-bit S1G beacon timestamp and the S1G Beacon Compatibility element's TSF completion field when informing an S1G BSS. Keep the regular management-frame timestamp read in the non-S1G branch. Fixes: 9eaffe5078ca ("cfg80211: convert S1G beacon to scan results") Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Tested-by: Lachlan Hodges Reviewed-by: Lachlan Hodges Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260611161943.91069-6-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: nl80211: free RNR data on MBSSID mismatch

2026-08-03T09:21:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 07a95ec2b54774201fdf4ef7ffb0ca2ab19ed29c ] nl80211_parse_beacon() rejects EMA RNR data when there are fewer RNR entries than MBSSID entries. The rejected RNR allocation has not been attached to the beacon data yet, so free it before returning the error. Fixes: dbbb27e183b1 ("cfg80211: support RNR for EMA AP") Signed-off-by: Zhao Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610112208.1308-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: convert pmsr_free_wk to wiphy_work to fix deadlock

2026-08-03T09:21:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2b0eab425e1f658d8fe1df7590e3b9af5959505e ] When a netlink socket that owns a PMSR session is closed, cfg80211_release_pmsr() clears the request's nl_portid and queues pmsr_free_wk to call cfg80211_pmsr_process_abort() asynchronously. If the interface tears down concurrently, cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down() is called under wiphy_lock and calls cancel_work_sync(&pmsr_free_wk) to wait for any running work. The work function acquires wiphy_lock via guard(wiphy) before calling process_abort. This is a deadlock: wdev_down holds wiphy_lock and blocks inside cancel_work_sync(); pmsr_free_wk blocks trying to acquire that same wiphy_lock. Neither thread can proceed. The same deadlock is reachable from cfg80211_leave_locked(), which calls cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down() for all interface types under wiphy_lock. Fix this by converting pmsr_free_wk from a plain work_struct to a wiphy_work. The wiphy_work dispatcher holds wiphy_lock when running work items, so the explicit guard(wiphy) in the work function is no longer needed. wiphy_work_cancel() can be called safely while holding wiphy_lock - since wiphy_lock prevents the work from running concurrently, wiphy_work_cancel() never blocks, eliminating the deadlock. Remove the cancel_work_sync() for pmsr_free_wk from the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN handler. cfg80211_leave(), called unconditionally just before it, already cancels any pending work under wiphy_lock via wiphy_work_cancel() inside cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down(). Fixes: 6dccbc9f3e1d ("wifi: cfg80211: cancel pmsr_free_wk in cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down") Signed-off-by: Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260703082523.2629324-1-peddolla.reddy@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: Fix an error handling path in cfg80211_wext_siwscan()

2026-08-03T09:21:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit c6659f66d4ee4841aafae5659d2ef5e4c5c63cb6 ] If the test against IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN fails, then 'creq' leaks. Use the existing error handling path to fix it. Fixes: 2a5193119269 ("cfg80211/nl80211: scanning (and mac80211 update to use it)") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a1be7eea4da0da18f90589af252bb76a18a61978.1781984889.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin