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authorBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>2019-06-15 03:13:20 +0300
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>2019-06-24 16:22:50 +0300
commit63d7ef36103d26f20325a921ecc96a3288560146 (patch)
treed75e9b8d6adee2d5596a97be1bdc7feb5c69f0f4 /drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
parent608fd7214323bd3bb2c288f68253e5bb634d4f49 (diff)
downloadlinux-63d7ef36103d26f20325a921ecc96a3288560146.tar.xz
mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs
Per the 802.11 specification, vendor IEs are (at minimum) only required to contain an OUI. A type field is also included in ieee80211.h (struct ieee80211_vendor_ie) but doesn't appear in the specification. The remaining fields (subtype, version) are a convention used in WMM headers. Thus, we should not reject vendor-specific IEs that have only the minimum length (3 bytes) -- we should skip over them (since we only want to match longer IEs, that match either WMM or WPA formats). We can reject elements that don't have the minimum-required 3 byte OUI. While we're at it, move the non-standard subtype and version fields into the WMM structs, to avoid this confusion in the future about generic "vendor header" attributes. Fixes: 685c9b7750bf ("mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element") Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
index c269a0de9413..e2786ab612ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
@@ -1361,21 +1361,25 @@ int mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter,
break;
case WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC:
- if (element_len + 2 < sizeof(vendor_ie->vend_hdr))
- return -EINVAL;
-
vendor_ie = (struct ieee_types_vendor_specific *)
current_ptr;
- if (!memcmp
- (vendor_ie->vend_hdr.oui, wpa_oui,
- sizeof(wpa_oui))) {
+ /* 802.11 requires at least 3-byte OUI. */
+ if (element_len < sizeof(vendor_ie->vend_hdr.oui.oui))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* Not long enough for a match? Skip it. */
+ if (element_len < sizeof(wpa_oui))
+ break;
+
+ if (!memcmp(&vendor_ie->vend_hdr.oui, wpa_oui,
+ sizeof(wpa_oui))) {
bss_entry->bcn_wpa_ie =
(struct ieee_types_vendor_specific *)
current_ptr;
bss_entry->wpa_offset = (u16)
(current_ptr - bss_entry->beacon_buf);
- } else if (!memcmp(vendor_ie->vend_hdr.oui, wmm_oui,
+ } else if (!memcmp(&vendor_ie->vend_hdr.oui, wmm_oui,
sizeof(wmm_oui))) {
if (total_ie_len ==
sizeof(struct ieee_types_wmm_parameter) ||