From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
To: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
"John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, tristan@talencesecurity.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 wireless 2/3] wifi: rt2x00: replace open-coded IE search with cfg80211_find_ie()
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:26:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027162648.GA4623@wp.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026223213.2091616-1-tristan@talencesecurity.com>
On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 10:32:13PM +0000, Tristan Madani wrote:
> rt2x00lib_find_ie() open-codes the IE search that cfg80211_find_ie()
> already provides. Replace the hand-rolled function with
> cfg80211_find_ie() at the single call site.
>
> Fixes: 1c0bcf89d85cc ("rt2x00: Add autowake support for USB hardware")
> Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
> ---
> .../net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 30 +++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> index 4d94b7062f440..921383a630bf2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> @@ -557,26 +557,6 @@ void rt2x00lib_txdone_noinfo(struct queue_entry *entry, u32 status)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rt2x00lib_txdone_noinfo);
>
> -static u8 *rt2x00lib_find_ie(u8 *data, unsigned int len, u8 ie)
> -{
> - struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (void *)data;
> - u8 *pos, *end;
> -
> - pos = (u8 *)mgmt->u.beacon.variable;
> - end = data + len;
> - while (pos < end) {
> - if (pos + 2 + pos[1] > end)
> - return NULL;
> -
> - if (pos[0] == ie)
> - return pos;
> -
> - pos += 2 + pos[1];
> - }
> -
> - return NULL;
> -}
> -
> static void rt2x00lib_sleep(struct work_struct *work)
> {
> struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev =
> @@ -642,9 +622,10 @@ static void rt2x00lib_rxdone_check_ps(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
> struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct rxdone_entry_desc *rxdesc)
> {
> - struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *) skb->data;
> + struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *)skb->data;
> + struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (void *)skb->data;
> struct ieee80211_tim_ie *tim_ie;
> - u8 *tim;
> + const u8 *tim;
> u8 tim_len;
> bool cam;
>
> @@ -666,7 +647,10 @@ static void rt2x00lib_rxdone_check_ps(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
>
> rt2x00dev->last_beacon = jiffies;
>
> - tim = rt2x00lib_find_ie(skb->data, skb->len - FCS_LEN, WLAN_EID_TIM);
> + tim = cfg80211_find_ie(WLAN_EID_TIM, mgmt->u.beacon.variable,
> + (skb->len - FCS_LEN) -
> + offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt,
> + u.beacon.variable));
> if (!tim)
> return;
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>
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