linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.2 1/2] mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:12:22 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Cc:     Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@...vell.com>,
        Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.2 1/2] mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:13:20 +0200,
Brian Norris wrote:
> 
> 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@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
> ---
> It appears that commit 685c9b7750bf is on its way to 5.2, so I labeled
> this bugfix for 5.2 as well.

Thanks for catching this.
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>


Takashi