[PATCH v2 2/2] wifi: b43: fix OOB read from hardware key index in b43_rx()
Tristan Madani <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:24:25 +0000
| Newsgroups | org.infradead.lists.b43-dev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless |
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From: Tristan Madani <[email protected]> The firmware-controlled key index in b43_rx() can exceed the dev->key[] array size (58 entries). The existing B43_WARN_ON is non-enforcing in production builds, allowing an out-of-bounds read of 1 byte from struct b43_firmware. A non-zero OOB value causes RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED to be incorrectly set on un-decrypted frames. Replace with an enforcing check that skips the key lookup for invalid indices. Fixes: e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices") Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c @@ -704,7 +704,10 @@ void b43_rx(struct b43_wldev *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, const void *_rxhdr) */ keyidx = b43_kidx_to_raw(dev, keyidx); - B43_WARN_ON(keyidx >= ARRAY_SIZE(dev->key)); + if (keyidx >= ARRAY_SIZE(dev->key)) { + b43dbg(dev->wl, "RX: invalid key index %u\n", keyidx); + goto drop; + } if (dev->key[keyidx].algorithm != B43_SEC_ALGO_NONE) { wlhdr_len = ieee80211_hdrlen(fctl); _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev