[PATCH v3 1/2] wifi: b43: enforce bounds check on firmware key index in b43_rx()

Tristan Madani tristmd at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 04:11:44 PDT 2026


From: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>

The firmware-controlled key index in b43_rx() can exceed the dev->key[]
array size (58 entries). The existing B43_WARN_ON is non-enforcing in
production builds, allowing an out-of-bounds read.

Make the B43_WARN_ON check enforcing by dropping the frame when the
firmware returns an invalid key index.

Suggested-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch>
Fixes: e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c
index 7651b1bdb..f0b082596 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c
@@ -702,7 +702,8 @@ void b43_rx(struct b43_wldev *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, const void *_rxhdr)
 		 * key index, but the ucode passed it slightly different.
 		 */
 		keyidx = b43_kidx_to_raw(dev, keyidx);
-		B43_WARN_ON(keyidx >= ARRAY_SIZE(dev->key));
+		if (B43_WARN_ON(keyidx >= ARRAY_SIZE(dev->key)))
+			goto drop;
 
 		if (dev->key[keyidx].algorithm != B43_SEC_ALGO_NONE) {
 			wlhdr_len = ieee80211_hdrlen(fctl);
-- 
2.47.3




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