[PATCH] [PATCH] wifi: mt76: Fix strscpy buffer overflow in mt76_connac2_load_patch

Mikhail Gavrilov mikhail.v.gavrilov at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 07:45:32 PST 2025


Commit f804a5895eba ("wifi: mt76: Strip whitespace from build ddate") introduced
a kernel panic/WARN on systems using MediaTek MT7921e (and potentially others
using mt76_connac_lib) due to an incorrect buffer size calculation.

The error logged is:
"strnlen: detected buffer overflow: 17 byte read of buffer size 16"

This occurs because the field 'hdr->build_date' is a fixed-size array of 16 bytes.
The patch allocated a 17-byte local buffer 'build_date' but used 'sizeof(build_date)'
(17) as the read limit for strscpy, causing Fortify Source to correctly detect
an attempt to read 17 bytes from the 16-byte source field.

To fix this, replace strscpy with memcpy, which is appropriate for raw data
copying, and explicitly use the size of the source field (sizeof(hdr->build_date) = 16)
to limit the read, followed by manual null termination.

Fixes: f804a5895eba ("wifi: mt76: Strip whitespace from build ddate")
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c
index ea99167765b0..d2c4c65ec464 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76_connac_mcu.c
@@ -3125,8 +3125,11 @@ int mt76_connac2_load_patch(struct mt76_dev *dev, const char *fw_name)
 	}
 
 	hdr = (const void *)fw->data;
-	strscpy(build_date, hdr->build_date, sizeof(build_date));
-	build_date[16] = '\0';
+	/* hdr->build_date is 16 bytes. Copy exactly 16 bytes to the 17-byte buffer,
+	 * and then add the null terminator at index 16.
+	 */
+	memcpy(build_date, hdr->build_date, sizeof(hdr->build_date));
+	build_date[sizeof(hdr->build_date)] = '\0';
 	strim(build_date);
 	dev_info(dev->dev, "HW/SW Version: 0x%x, Build Time: %.16s\n",
 		 be32_to_cpu(hdr->hw_sw_ver), build_date);
-- 
2.52.0




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