[PATCH v3] wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: pass PMKID to firmware if present

Bogdan Nicolae <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 23:47:08 -0500
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.brcm80211,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zero out auth_status on initialization. Otherwise, garbage will
leak from the stack to the firmware (when ssid is less than 32 bytes
and/or when params->pmkid is set). Then, pass the params->pmkid to the
firmware (without it, the firmware caches a garbage PMKID on successful
authentication and denies a subsequent association request that includes
the PMKID).

Fixes: 66f909308a7c ("wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: support external SAE authentication in station mode")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Nicolae <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
---
v3: Added Fixes, Cc: stable, and Acked-by tags
v2: Split into a separate patch

 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cyw/core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cyw/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cyw/core.c
index 873754be5..2c59b5e57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cyw/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cyw/core.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ brcmf_cyw_external_auth(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 {
    struct brcmf_if *ifp;
    struct brcmf_pub *drvr;
-	struct brcmf_auth_req_status_le auth_status;
+	struct brcmf_auth_req_status_le auth_status = {};
    int ret = 0;
 
    brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Enter\n");
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ brcmf_cyw_external_auth(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
    ifp = netdev_priv(dev);
    drvr = ifp->drvr;
    if (params->status == WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+		if (params->pmkid)
+			memcpy(auth_status.pmkid, params->pmkid, WLAN_PMKID_LEN);
	auth_status.flags = cpu_to_le16(BRCMF_EXTAUTH_SUCCESS);
    } else {
	bphy_err(drvr, "External authentication failed: status=%d\n",
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2.55.0