6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com
[ Upstream commit be06a8c7313943109fa870715356503c4c709cbc ]
Management frames sent by userspace should never have the order/HTC bit set, reject that. It could also cause some confusion with the length of the buffer and the header so the validation might end up wrong.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250718202307.97a0455f0f35.I1805355c7e331352df1661... Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/wireless/mlme.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/mlme.c b/net/wireless/mlme.c index a5eb92d93074..d1a66410b9c5 100644 --- a/net/wireless/mlme.c +++ b/net/wireless/mlme.c @@ -843,7 +843,8 @@ int cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
mgmt = (const struct ieee80211_mgmt *)params->buf;
- if (!ieee80211_is_mgmt(mgmt->frame_control)) + if (!ieee80211_is_mgmt(mgmt->frame_control) || + ieee80211_has_order(mgmt->frame_control)) return -EINVAL;
stype = le16_to_cpu(mgmt->frame_control) & IEEE80211_FCTL_STYPE;