This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: do not access the IV when it was stripped to the 5.15-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-do-not-access-the-iv-when-it-was-stripped.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cbe66fae9d2dbea0294a1e5e59b4228579227caf Author: Xing Song <xing.song@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 1 10:46:57 2021 +0800 mac80211: do not access the IV when it was stripped [ Upstream commit 77dfc2bc0bb4b8376ecd7a430f27a4a8fff6a5a0 ] ieee80211_get_keyid() will return false value if IV has been stripped, such as return 0 for IP/ARP frames due to LLC header, and return -EINVAL for disassociation frames due to its length... etc. Don't try to access it if it's not present. Signed-off-by: Xing Song <xing.song@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211101024657.143026-1-xing.song@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 419f06ef8c986..315a3e8e95496 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1952,7 +1952,8 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) int keyid = rx->sta->ptk_idx; sta_ptk = rcu_dereference(rx->sta->ptk[keyid]); - if (ieee80211_has_protected(fc)) { + if (ieee80211_has_protected(fc) && + !(status->flag & RX_FLAG_IV_STRIPPED)) { cs = rx->sta->cipher_scheme; keyid = ieee80211_get_keyid(rx->skb, cs);