This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: mac80211: fix unaligned le16 access
to the 6.8-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:
wifi-mac80211-fix-unaligned-le16-access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9055126943c05c7dead97ca906a8aa78b1cdcd89
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 18 10:52:26 2024 +0200
wifi: mac80211: fix unaligned le16 access
[ Upstream commit c53d8a59351e4347452e263e2e5d7446ec93da83 ]
The AP removal timer field need not be aligned, so the
code shouldn't access it directly, but use unaligned
loads. Use get_unaligned_le16(), which even is shorter
than the current code since it doesn't need a cast.
Fixes: 8eb8dd2ffbbb ("wifi: mac80211: Support link removal using Reconfiguration ML element")
Reviewed-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240418105220.356788ba0045.I2b3cdb3644e205d5bb10322c345c0499171cf5d2@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index fb9860d508707..94028b541beba 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -5848,7 +5848,7 @@ static void ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
*/
if (control &
IEEE80211_MLE_STA_RECONF_CONTROL_AP_REM_TIMER_PRESENT)
- link_removal_timeout[link_id] = le16_to_cpu(*(__le16 *)pos);
+ link_removal_timeout[link_id] = get_unaligned_le16(pos);
}
removed_links &= sdata->vif.valid_links;
