Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20221202 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: Thu Dec 1 17:29:14 2022 +0100 98686cd21624 ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: add driver for MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1527797: Insecure data handling (TAINTED_SCALAR) drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c:415 in mt7996_mcu_ie_countdown() 409 struct mt76_phy *mphy = &dev->mt76.phy; 410 struct mt7996_mcu_rxd *rxd = (struct mt7996_mcu_rxd *)skb->data; 411 const char *data = (char *)&rxd[1], *tail; 412 struct header *hdr = (struct header *)data; 413 struct tlv *tlv = (struct tlv *)(data + 4); 414 vvv CID 1527797: Insecure data handling (TAINTED_SCALAR) vvv Using tainted variable "hdr->band" as an index into an array "(*dev).mt76.phys". 415 if (hdr->band && dev->mt76.phys[hdr->band]) 416 mphy = dev->mt76.phys[hdr->band]; 417 418 tail = skb->data + le16_to_cpu(rxd->len); 419 while (data + sizeof(struct tlv) < tail && le16_to_cpu(tlv->len)) { 420 switch (le16_to_cpu(tlv->tag)) { If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527797 ("Insecure data handling") Fixes: 98686cd21624 ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: add driver for MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot