linux-stable.git/net/wireless, branch linux-6.15.y

wifi: cfg80211: reject HTC bit for management frames

2025-08-20T16:36:02+00:00

[ 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.I1805355c7e331352df16611839bc8198c855a33f@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: nl80211: Set num_sub_specs before looping through sub_specs

2025-08-15T10:16:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2ed9a9fc9976262109d04f1a3c75c46de8ce4f22 ]

The processing of the struct cfg80211_sar_specs::sub_specs flexible
array requires its counter, num_sub_specs, to be assigned before the
loop in nl80211_set_sar_specs(). Leave the final assignment after the
loop in place in case fewer ended up in the array.

Fixes: aa4ec06c455d ("wifi: cfg80211: use __counted_by where appropriate")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250721183125.work.183-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()

2025-08-15T10:16:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2c5dee15239f3f3e31aa5c8808f18996c039e2c1 ]

Callers of wdev_chandef() must hold the wiphy mutex.

But the worker cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk() never takes the lock.
Which triggers the warning below with the mesh_peer_connected_dfs
test from hostapd and not (yet) released mac80211 code changes:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 495 at net/wireless/chan.c:1552 wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 495 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-wt-g03960e6f9d47 #33 13c287eeabfe1efea01c0bcc863723ab082e17cf
Workqueue: cfg80211 cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk
Stack:
 00000000 00000001 ffffff00 6093267c
 00000000 6002ec30 6d577c50 60037608
 00000000 67e8d108 6063717b 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<6002ec30>] ? _printk+0x0/0x98
 [<6003c2b3>] show_stack+0x10e/0x11a
 [<6002ec30>] ? _printk+0x0/0x98
 [<60037608>] dump_stack_lvl+0x71/0xb8
 [<6063717b>] ? wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
 [<6003766d>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
 [<6005d1b7>] __warn+0x101/0x20f
 [<6005d3a8>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xe3/0x15d
 [<600b0c5c>] ? mark_lock.part.0+0x0/0x4ec
 [<60751191>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x0/0x16
 [<600b11a2>] ? mark_held_locks+0x5a/0x6e
 [<6005d2c5>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x0/0x15d
 [<60052e53>] ? unblock_signals+0x3a/0xe7
 [<60052f2d>] ? um_set_signals+0x2d/0x43
 [<60751191>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x0/0x16
 [<607508b2>] ? lock_is_held_type+0x207/0x21f
 [<6063717b>] wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
 [<605f89b4>] regulatory_propagate_dfs_state+0x247/0x43f
 [<60052f00>] ? um_set_signals+0x0/0x43
 [<605e6bfd>] cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk+0x3a/0x4a
 [<6007e460>] process_scheduled_works+0x3bc/0x60e
 [<6007d0ec>] ? move_linked_works+0x4d/0x81
 [<6007d120>] ? assign_work+0x0/0xaa
 [<6007f81f>] worker_thread+0x220/0x2dc
 [<600786ef>] ? set_pf_worker+0x0/0x57
 [<60087c96>] ? to_kthread+0x0/0x43
 [<6008ab3c>] kthread+0x2d3/0x2e2
 [<6007f5ff>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x2dc
 [<6006c05b>] ? calculate_sigpending+0x0/0x56
 [<6003b37d>] new_thread_handler+0x4a/0x64
irq event stamp: 614611
hardirqs last  enabled at (614621): [<00000000600bc96b>] __up_console_sem+0x82/0xaf
hardirqs last disabled at (614630): [<00000000600bc92c>] __up_console_sem+0x43/0xaf
softirqs last  enabled at (614268): [<00000000606c55c6>] __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x933/0x985
softirqs last disabled at (614266): [<00000000606c52d6>] __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x643/0x985

Fixes: 26ec17a1dc5e ("cfg80211: Fix radar event during another phy CAC")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717162547.94582-1-Alexander@wetzel-home.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: fix S1G beacon head validation in nl80211

2025-07-17T16:43:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1fe44a86ff0ff483aa1f1332f2b08f431fa51ce8 ]

S1G beacons contain fixed length optional fields that precede the
variable length elements, ensure we take this into account when
validating the beacon. This particular case was missed in
1e1f706fc2ce ("wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: correctly parse S1G
beacon optional elements").

Fixes: 1d47f1198d58 ("nl80211: correctly validate S1G beacon head")
Signed-off-by: Lachlan Hodges 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250626115118.68660-1-lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com
[shorten/reword subject]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks

2025-07-17T16:43:47+00:00

commit 737bb912ebbe4571195c56eba557c4d7315b26fb upstream.

This patch is a mitigation to prevent the A-MSDU spoofing vulnerability
for mesh networks. The initial update to the IEEE 802.11 standard, in
response to the FragAttacks, missed this case (CVE-2025-27558). It can
be considered a variant of CVE-2020-24588 but for mesh networks.

This patch tries to detect if a standard MSDU was turned into an A-MSDU
by an adversary. This is done by parsing a received A-MSDU as a standard
MSDU, calculating the length of the Mesh Control header, and seeing if
the 6 bytes after this header equal the start of an rfc1042 header. If
equal, this is a strong indication of an ongoing attack attempt.

This defense was tested with mac80211_hwsim against a mesh network that
uses an empty Mesh Address Extension field, i.e., when four addresses
are used, and when using a 12-byte Mesh Address Extension field, i.e.,
when six addresses are used. Functionality of normal MSDUs and A-MSDUs
was also tested, and confirmed working, when using both an empty and
12-byte Mesh Address Extension field.

It was also tested with mac80211_hwsim that A-MSDU attacks in non-mesh
networks keep being detected and prevented.

Note that the vulnerability being patched, and the defense being
implemented, was also discussed in the following paper and in the
following IEEE 802.11 presentation:

https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/wisec2025.pdf
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/25/11-25-0949-00-000m-a-msdu-mesh-spoof-protection.docx

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616004635.224344-1-Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: correctly parse S1G beacon optional elements

2025-06-19T13:40:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1e1f706fc2ce90eaaf3480b3d5f27885960d751c ]

S1G beacons are not traditional beacons but a type of extension frame.
Extension frames contain the frame control and duration fields, followed
by zero or more optional fields before the frame body. These optional
fields are distinct from the variable length elements.

The presence of optional fields is indicated in the frame control field.
To correctly locate the elements offset, the frame control must be parsed
to identify which optional fields are present. Currently, mac80211 parses
S1G beacons based on fixed assumptions about the frame layout, without
inspecting the frame control field. This can result in incorrect offsets
to the "variable" portion of the frame.

Properly parse S1G beacon frames by using the field lengths defined in
IEEE 802.11-2024, section 9.3.4.3, ensuring that the elements offset is
calculated accurately.

Fixes: 9eaffe5078ca ("cfg80211: convert S1G beacon to scan results")
Fixes: cd418ba63f0c ("mac80211: convert S1G beacon to scan results")
Signed-off-by: Lachlan Hodges 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250603053538.468562-1-lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: cfg80211: fix out-of-bounds access during multi-link element defragmentation

2025-05-06T19:04:40+00:00

Currently during the multi-link element defragmentation process, the
multi-link element length added to the total IEs length when calculating
the length of remaining IEs after the multi-link element in
cfg80211_defrag_mle(). This could lead to out-of-bounds access if the
multi-link element or its corresponding fragment elements are the last
elements in the IEs buffer.

To address this issue, correctly calculate the remaining IEs length by
deducting the multi-link element end offset from total IEs end offset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2481b5da9c6b ("wifi: cfg80211: handle BSS data contained in ML probe responses")
Signed-off-by: Veerendranath Jakkam 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250424-fix_mle_defragmentation_oob_access-v1-1-84412a1743fa@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

wifi: nl80211: re-enable multi-link reconfiguration

2025-03-18T13:52:11+00:00

With the recent fixes, we can re-enable multi-link
reconfiguration. Also add a CMD() entry to allow
userspace discovery for it.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250318135009.a95c43837a0f.Ic6ed3d184e5be8ba47c6affa7271daaf824fd823@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails

2025-03-18T09:27:33+00:00

syzbort reported a uninitialize wiphy_work_lock in cfg80211_dev_free. [1]

After rfkill allocation fails, the wiphy release process will be performed,
which will cause cfg80211_dev_free to access the uninitialized wiphy_work
related data.

Move the initialization of wiphy_work to before rfkill initialization to
avoid this issue.

[1]
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5935 Comm: syz-executor550 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc6-syzkaller-00103-g4003c9e78778 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 assign_lock_key kernel/locking/lockdep.c:983 [inline]
 register_lock_class+0xc39/0x1240 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1297
 __lock_acquire+0x135/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5103
 lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 cfg80211_dev_free+0x30/0x3d0 net/wireless/core.c:1196
 device_release+0xa1/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2568
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x1e4/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
 put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3774
 wiphy_free net/wireless/core.c:1224 [inline]
 wiphy_new_nm+0x1c1f/0x2160 net/wireless/core.c:562
 ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm+0x1b7a/0x2260 net/mac80211/main.c:835
 mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x1d6/0x54e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:5185
 hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xb42/0x12b0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:6242
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x202/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x565/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2533
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1882
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:733 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2573
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2627
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2659
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

Fixes: 72d520476a2f ("wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy")
Reported-by: syzbot+aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Close: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029
Tested-by: syzbot+aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_258DD9121DDDB9DD9A1939CFAA0D8625B107@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg