Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mwifiex: fix STA cannot connect to AP

[Francesco Dolcini]

Hello David,

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 02:22:57AM +0000, David Lin wrote:
> > From: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
> > Nitpick: "fix STA cannot connect to AP" isn't the best commit message; that
> > could describe an enormous number of fixes. Maybe something more like
> > "Configure BSSID consistently when starting AP"?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion. I will change commit message as you
> suggested. Does it mean I should create another patch from v1?

Just create `[PATCH v3] wifi: mwifiex: fix STA cannot connect to AP`

Add the change suggested by Brian and the tags you received on this v2:

 - Reviewed-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 - Tested-by: Rafael Beims <rafael.beims@xxxxxxxxxxx> # Verdin iMX8MP / SD8997 SD
 - Acked-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > Not directly related to this patch, but while you're expanding the size of this
> > command buffer: it always felt like a security-hole-in-waiting that none of
> > these command producers do any kinds of bounds checking.
> > We're just "lucky" that these function only generate contents of ~100 bytes at
> > max, while MWIFIEX_SIZE_OF_CMD_BUFFER=2048. But, just add a few more
> > user-space controlled TLV params, and boom, we'll have ourselves a nice
> > little CVE.
> > 
> > It probably wouldn't hurt to significantly write much of this driver, but at a
> > minimum, we could probably use a few checks like this:
> > 
> >         cmd_size += sizeof(struct host_cmd_tlv_mac_addr);
> >         if (cmd_size > MWIFIEX_SIZE_OF_CMD_BUFFER)
> >                 return -1;
> >         // Only touch tlv *after* the bounds check.
> > 
> > That doesn't need to block this patch, of course.
> > 
> > Brian
> >
> 
> I will modify the code for next patch.

I would suggest not modify this in this patch, we should fix all the code that
is subjected to this potential issue.

I would personally do a follow-up patch just to add the check to avoid
overflowing the cmd buffer everywhere it is used.

Francesco