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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+cc867e537e4bd36f69bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:50:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260725142028.32560-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)

The KASAN allocation trace shows that a malformed IE buffer is
stored via SIOCSIWGENIE (cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()) without any
validation. The crash trace shows that a subsequent SIOCSIWESSID
triggers a connection attempt which calls cfg80211_sme_get_conn_ies()
to process the stored IE buffer, causing:

 - An out-of-bounds read in skip_ie() which reads ies[pos+1]
   (the length byte) past the end of the 1-byte buffer.

 - An integer underflow in the memcpy size argument when offs
   returned by ieee80211_ie_split() exceeds ies_len, causing
   unsigned subtraction to wrap to SIZE_MAX and triggering a
   fortify panic.

Fix this by validating the IE buffer in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
before storing it. First reject buffers smaller than 2 bytes since
a valid IE requires at least a type and length field. Then use
for_each_element() and for_each_element_completed() to verify all
elements are well-formed. Return -EINVAL if validation fails.

Reported-by: syzbot+cc867e537e4bd36f69bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=cc867e537e4bd36f69bb
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>

---
v2: Use for_each_element() and for_each_element_completed() instead
    of open-coded validation loop, as suggested by Johannes Berg.
    Also add explicit ie_len < 2 check to handle the case where
    for_each_element_completed() returns true for a 1-byte buffer.
---
 net/wireless/wext-sme.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
index 573b6b15a446..51fc2617a1c3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
@@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ int cfg80211_wext_siwgenie(struct net_device *dev,
 		return 0;
 
 	if (ie_len) {
+		const struct element *elem;
+
+		 /* IE must have at least Type + Length bytes */
+		if (ie_len < 2)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		for_each_element(elem, extra, ie_len) {
+			/* nothing */
+		}
+
+		if (!for_each_element_completed(elem, extra, ie_len))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		ie = kmemdup(extra, ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!ie)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-25 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-25 14:20 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2026-07-26 20:48 ` Jeff Johnson
2026-07-29  1:41   ` Deepanshu Kartikey
2026-07-29  6:34     ` Johannes Berg

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