[PATCH v3 2/2] wifi: b43legacy: enforce bounds check on firmware key index in RX path

Tristan Madani tristmd at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 04:11:45 PDT 2026


From: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>

Same fix as b43: the firmware-controlled key index in b43legacy_rx()
can exceed dev->max_nr_keys. The existing B43legacy_WARN_ON is
non-enforcing in production builds, allowing an out-of-bounds read of
dev->key[].

Make the check enforcing by dropping the frame for invalid indices.

Fixes: 75388acd0cd8 ("[B43LEGACY]: add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c
index efd63f4ce..ee199d4ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c
@@ -476,7 +476,8 @@ void b43legacy_rx(struct b43legacy_wldev *dev,
 		 * key index, but the ucode passed it slightly different.
 		 */
 		keyidx = b43legacy_kidx_to_raw(dev, keyidx);
-		B43legacy_WARN_ON(keyidx >= dev->max_nr_keys);
+		if (B43legacy_WARN_ON(keyidx >= dev->max_nr_keys))
+			goto drop;
 
 		if (dev->key[keyidx].algorithm != B43legacy_SEC_ALGO_NONE) {
 			/* Remove PROTECTED flag to mark it as decrypted. */
-- 
2.47.3




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