[PATCH] ath11k: Change max no of active probe SSID and BSSID to fw capability

Kalle Valo kvalo at kernel.org
Fri Apr 1 04:55:01 PDT 2022


Karthikeyan Kathirvel <quic_kathirve at quicinc.com> writes:

> The maximum number of SSIDs in a for active probe requests is currently
> reported as 16 (WLAN_SCAN_PARAMS_MAX_SSID) when registering the driver.
> The scan_req_params structure only has the capacity to hold 10 SSIDs.
> This leads to a buffer overflow which can be triggered from
> wpa_supplicant in userspace. When copying the SSIDs into the
> scan_req_params structure in the ath11k_mac_op_hw_scan route, it can
> overwrite the extraie pointer.
>
> Firmware supports 16 ssid * 4 bssid, for each ssid 4 bssid combo probe
> request will be sent, so totally 64 probe requests supported. So
> set both max ssid and bssid to 16 and 4 respectively. Remove the
> redundant macros of ssid and bssid.
>
> Tested-on : WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01300-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 v1

This is not correct format:

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath11k/submittingpatches#tested-on_tag

On what hardware did you test this? I can then fix the tag.

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