Brian Norris ced121ed85 mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs
commit 63d7ef3610 upstream.

Per the 802.11 specification, vendor IEs are (at minimum) only required
to contain an OUI. A type field is also included in ieee80211.h (struct
ieee80211_vendor_ie) but doesn't appear in the specification. The
remaining fields (subtype, version) are a convention used in WMM
headers.

Thus, we should not reject vendor-specific IEs that have only the
minimum length (3 bytes) -- we should skip over them (since we only want
to match longer IEs, that match either WMM or WPA formats). We can
reject elements that don't have the minimum-required 3 byte OUI.

While we're at it, move the non-standard subtype and version fields into
the WMM structs, to avoid this confusion in the future about generic
"vendor header" attributes.

Fixes: 685c9b7750 ("mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element")
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-21 09:04:33 +02:00
2019-07-10 09:54:40 +02:00
2019-07-10 09:54:43 +02:00

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