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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"freenerguo(郭大兴)" <freenerguo@tencent.com>,
	"Franky Lin" <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
	"Hante Meuleman" <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
	"Chi-Hsien Lin" <Chi-Hsien.Lin@cypress.com>,
	"Wright Feng" <Wright.Feng@cypress.com>,
	"Kalle Valo" <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"Pieter-Paul Giesberts" <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com"
	<brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com>,
	brcm80211-dev-list <brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com>,
	"security@kernel.org" <security@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx()
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:32:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxGacqVMDN0pETkd9Ho554wR8ACvTZhxK6p6M6CtUc_DA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2c78377-5608-b6c3-07d8-17dfc56a5c7e@broadcom.com>

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> Looks fine to me so ...

I really think that if we can't trust 'len', then we have to check
against the lower bound of DOT11_MGMT_HDR_LEN too, because otherwise
we'll just have a big 16-bit number instead.

And we should do that brcmf_err() that I had in my version, which also
let's people know they are being attacked.

                    Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <88f27bfd328f4ccdb0d6b7ff7e710819@MWHPR06MB3230.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
2017-07-06 17:11 ` [PATCH] brcmfmac: buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx() Arend van Spriel
2017-07-06 22:32   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-07-07  8:28     ` Arend van Spriel
2017-07-07  8:41       ` Kalle Valo
2017-07-07  8:40     ` Kalle Valo
2017-07-07  8:49       ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-07  9:19         ` Arend van Spriel
2017-07-07  8:46     ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-07  9:24       ` Arend van Spriel
2017-07-07 10:19         ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-07 11:19           ` Arend van Spriel
2017-07-07 11:21         ` Arend van Spriel
     [not found] <76EE61108481FC4BBFFF404FA986AA6719B8EA26@EXMBX-TJ001.tencent.com>
2017-07-06  8:41 ` Dan Carpenter

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