linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mt76: Fix strscpy buffer overflow in mt76_connac2_load

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Message-ID: <191da5b6-209f-4615-b111-40b98687c705@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:50:02 -0600
From: "Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org)" <superm1@...nel.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
 Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mt76: Fix strscpy buffer overflow in
 mt76_connac2_load_patch



On 12/12/2025 8:35 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 09:12:02PM +0500, Mikhail Gavrilov wrote:
>> Commit f804a5895eba ("wifi: mt76: Strip whitespace from build ddate") introduced
>> a kernel panic/WARN on systems using MediaTek MT7921e (and potentially others
>> using mt76_connac_lib) due to an incorrect buffer size calculation.
>>
>> The error logged is:
>> "strnlen: detected buffer overflow: 17 byte read of buffer size 16"
>>
>> This occurs because the field 'hdr->build_date' is a fixed-size array of 16 bytes.
>> The patch allocated a 17-byte local buffer 'build_date' but used 'sizeof(build_date)'
>> (17) as the read limit for strscpy, causing Fortify Source to correctly detect
>> an attempt to read 17 bytes from the 16-byte source field.
>>
>> To fix this, replace strscpy with memcpy, which is appropriate for raw data
>> copying, and explicitly use the size of the source field (sizeof(hdr->build_date) = 16)
>> to limit the read, followed by manual null termination.
>>
>> Fixes: f804a5895eba ("wifi: mt76: Strip whitespace from build ddate")
>> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c | 7 +++++--
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c
>> index ea99167765b0..d2c4c65ec464 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c
>> @@ -3125,8 +3125,11 @@ int mt76_connac2_load_patch(struct mt76_dev *dev, const char *fw_name)
>>   	}
>>   
>>   	hdr = (const void *)fw->data;
>> -	strscpy(build_date, hdr->build_date, sizeof(build_date));
>> -	build_date[16] = '\0';
>> +	/* hdr->build_date is 16 bytes. Copy exactly 16 bytes to the 17-byte buffer,
>> +	 * and then add the null terminator at index 16.
>> +	 */
>> +	memcpy(build_date, hdr->build_date, sizeof(hdr->build_date));
>> +	build_date[sizeof(hdr->build_date)] = '\0';
>>   	strim(build_date);
>>   	dev_info(dev->dev, "HW/SW Version: 0x%x, Build Time: %.16s\n",
>>   		 be32_to_cpu(hdr->hw_sw_ver), build_date);
> 
> Tested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> 
> Can this be sent upstream soon?
> 
> - Eric

Tested-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@...nel.org>