[PATCH] wifi: libertas: fix RX OOB access from device-controlled pkt_ptr
Tianchu Chen
tianchu.chen at linux.dev
Thu Sep 24 03:19:43 PDT 2026
From: Tianchu Chen <flynnnchen at tencent.com>
lbs_process_rxed_packet() computes the packet header pointer as
skb->data + rxpd->pkt_ptr, where pkt_ptr is a 32-bit value supplied
by the device, and never checks it against the packet length. The
only validation (skb->len < ETH_HLEN + 8 + sizeof(struct rxpd))
bounds the total length, not pkt_ptr.
A bogus device can report an arbitrary pkt_ptr:
- the memcmp() against the RFC1042 header reads 6 bytes at
pkt_ptr + 14, potentially past the skb buffer
- if the compared bytes happen to match, the EthernetII header
reconstruction writes 12 bytes at pkt_ptr + 8;
- hdrchop derived from pkt_ptr is later passed to skb_pull().
Validate pkt_ptr before using it: it must leave room for a full
struct rxpackethdr within the received frame. It is not expected
to affect the driver behavior in most cases, only invalid pkt_ptr
packets being dropped.
Discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine.
Fixes: e45d8e534b67 ("libertas: add support for Marvell SD8688 chip")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Tianchu Chen <flynnnchen at tencent.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/rx.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/rx.c
index c34d30f7cbe03..a9d1320d90b15 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/rx.c
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ int lbs_process_rxed_packet(struct lbs_private *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
goto done;
}
+ if (le32_to_cpu(p_rx_pd->pkt_ptr) >
+ skb->len - sizeof(struct rxpackethdr)) {
+ lbs_deb_rx("rx err: pkt_ptr beyond packet\n");
+ dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ goto done;
+ }
+
lbs_deb_rx("rx data: skb->len - pkt_ptr = %d-%zd = %zd\n",
skb->len, (size_t)le32_to_cpu(p_rx_pd->pkt_ptr),
skb->len - (size_t)le32_to_cpu(p_rx_pd->pkt_ptr));
--
2.51.0
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