[PATCH] wifi: libertas: reject short monitor TX frames

Pengpeng Hou pengpeng at iscas.ac.cn
Fri Jul 3 18:11:40 PDT 2026


In monitor mode, lbs_hard_start_xmit() casts skb->data to a
radiotap TX header, skips that header, and then copies the 802.11
destination address from offset 4 in the remaining frame.  The
generic length check only rejects zero-length and oversized skbs, so
a short monitor frame can be read past the end of the skb data.

Require enough bytes for the radiotap TX header and the destination
address field before using the monitor-mode header layout.

Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng at iscas.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/tx.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/tx.c
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@
 	if (priv->wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) {
 		struct tx_radiotap_hdr *rtap_hdr = (void *)skb->data;
 
+		if (skb->len < sizeof(*rtap_hdr) + 4 + ETH_ALEN) {
+			lbs_deb_tx("tx err: short monitor frame %u\n", skb->len);
+			dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+			dev->stats.tx_errors++;
+			goto free;
+		}
+
 		/* set txpd fields from the radiotap header */
 		txpd->tx_control = cpu_to_le32(convert_radiotap_rate_to_mv(rtap_hdr->rate));
 




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