This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ca8210: fix mac_len negative array access to the 5.10-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: ca8210-fix-mac_len-negative-array-access.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cad3325b77fa3e77a7f023f3ff766dff72b128a5 Author: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 16 23:25:04 2023 -0500 ca8210: fix mac_len negative array access [ Upstream commit 6c993779ea1d0cccdb3a5d7d45446dd229e610a3 ] This patch fixes a buffer overflow access of skb->data if ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs() fails. Reported-by: lianhui tang <bluetlh@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230217042504.3303396-1-aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c index 95ef3b6f98dd3..5beb447529f9e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c @@ -1956,6 +1956,8 @@ static int ca8210_skb_tx( * packet */ mac_len = ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs(skb, &header); + if (mac_len < 0) + return mac_len; secspec.security_level = header.sec.level; secspec.key_id_mode = header.sec.key_id_mode;