This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: bail out if cipher schemes are invalid to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mac80211-bail-out-if-cipher-schemes-are-invalid.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ab5d24f864244f0a87c2cdfec633d0c6e54b9bb6 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 8 14:31:50 2021 +0200 mac80211: bail out if cipher schemes are invalid [ Upstream commit db878e27a98106a70315d264cc92230d84009e72 ] If any of the cipher schemes specified by the driver are invalid, bail out and fail the registration rather than just warning. Otherwise, we might later crash when we try to use the invalid cipher scheme, e.g. if the hdr_len is (significantly) less than the pn_offs + pn_len, we'd have an out-of-bounds access in RX validation. Fixes: 2475b1cc0d52 ("mac80211: add generic cipher scheme support") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408143149.38a3a13a1b19.I6b7f5790fa0958ed8049cf02ac2a535c61e9bc96@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 2357b17254e7..871931577ef4 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -1019,8 +1019,11 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) if (local->hw.wiphy->max_scan_ie_len) local->hw.wiphy->max_scan_ie_len -= local->scan_ies_len; - WARN_ON(!ieee80211_cs_list_valid(local->hw.cipher_schemes, - local->hw.n_cipher_schemes)); + if (WARN_ON(!ieee80211_cs_list_valid(local->hw.cipher_schemes, + local->hw.n_cipher_schemes))) { + result = -EINVAL; + goto fail_workqueue; + } result = ieee80211_init_cipher_suites(local); if (result < 0)