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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:34:08 -0700
From: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@...il.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>,
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Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>,
"Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
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David Lin <yu-hao.lin@....com>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write
warning in mwifiex_config_scan()
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:20:54AM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote:
> Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct
> mwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params` to fix the following warning
> on a MT8173 Chromebook (mt8173-elm-hana):
>
> [ 356.775250] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 356.784543] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 (size 1)
> [ 356.813403] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 742 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 mwifiex_scan_networks+0x4fc/0xf28 [mwifiex]
>
> The "(size 6)" above is exactly the length of the SSID of the network
> this device was connected to. The source of the warning looks like:
>
> ssid_len = user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid_len;
> [...]
> memcpy(wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid,
> user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid, ssid_len);
>
> There is a #define WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE that uses sizeof() on this
> struct, but it already didn't account for the size of the one-element
> array, so it doesn't need to be changed.
>
> Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver")
> Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@...il.com>
For patch 1:
Acked-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
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