Re: [PATCH net v2] mac802154: llsec: reject frames shorter than the authentication tag

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:

On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:34:23 +0200 you wrote:
> llsec_do_decrypt_auth() computes the associated-data length for the
> AEAD request as
> 
> 	assoclen += datalen - authlen;
> 
> where datalen is the number of bytes after the MAC header and authlen
> (4, 8 or 16) is the length of the authentication tag. Nothing verifies
> that the frame actually carries at least authlen payload bytes. A
> secured frame whose payload is shorter than the tag makes
> datalen - authlen negative; assoclen is then passed to
> aead_request_set_ad() as an unsigned value close to 4 GiB, so
> crypto_aead_decrypt() walks far off the end of the scatterlist that
> only spans the real frame.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v2] mac802154: llsec: reject frames shorter than the authentication tag
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/fd3a3f28ed60

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