This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: make ieee80211_tx_info padding explicit
to the 6.5-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-make-ieee80211_tx_info-padding-explicit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2cfb6f8b82c90a5d50e9c1b7b27bfc5ba0ea3cc4
Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 23 17:24:00 2023 +0200
mac80211: make ieee80211_tx_info padding explicit
[ Upstream commit a7a2ef0c4b3efbd7d6f3fabd87dbbc0b3f2de5af ]
While looking at a bug, I got rather confused by the layout of the
'status' field in ieee80211_tx_info. Apparently, the intention is that
status_driver_data[] is used for driver specific data, and fills up the
size of the union to 40 bytes, just like the other ones.
This is indeed what actually happens, but only because of the
combination of two mistakes:
- "void *status_driver_data[18 / sizeof(void *)];" is intended
to be 18 bytes long but is actually two bytes shorter because of
rounding-down in the division, to a multiple of the pointer
size (4 bytes or 8 bytes).
- The other fields combined are intended to be 22 bytes long, but
are actually 24 bytes because of padding in front of the
unaligned tx_time member, and in front of the pointer array.
The two mistakes cancel out. so the size ends up fine, but it seems
more helpful to make this explicit, by having a multiple of 8 bytes
in the size calculation and explicitly describing the padding.
Fixes: ea5907db2a9cc ("mac80211: fix struct ieee80211_tx_info size")
Fixes: 02219b3abca59 ("mac80211: add WMM admission control support")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623152443.2296825-2-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 2a55ae932c568..ad41581384d9f 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1192,9 +1192,11 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_info {
u8 ampdu_ack_len;
u8 ampdu_len;
u8 antenna;
+ u8 pad;
u16 tx_time;
u8 flags;
- void *status_driver_data[18 / sizeof(void *)];
+ u8 pad2;
+ void *status_driver_data[16 / sizeof(void *)];
} status;
struct {
struct ieee80211_tx_rate driver_rates[
