linux.git/net/wireless, branch v7.1-rc7

wifi: cfg80211: enforce HE/EHT cap/oper consistency

2026-06-03T11:25:19+00:00

Xiang Mei reports that mac80211 could crash if eht_cap is set
but eht_oper isn't. Rather than fixing that for the individual
user(s), enforce that both HE/EHT have consistent elements.

Reported-by: Xiang Mei 
Fixes: 22c64f37e1d4 ("wifi: mac80211: Update MCS15 support in link_conf")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603091812.101894-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails

2026-06-03T07:32:45+00:00

rdev->int_scan_req is leaked if cfg80211_scan() fails.  Note that it's
supposed to be released at ___cfg80211_scan_done() but this doesn't happen
as rdev->scan_req is NULL at that point, too, leading to the early return
from the freeing function.

unreferenced object 0xffff8881161d0800 (size 512):
  comm "wpa_supplicant", pid 379, jiffies 4294749765
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 81 13 16 81 88 ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc c867fdb6):
    kmemleak_alloc+0x89/0x90
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x2fd/0x410
    cfg80211_scan+0x133/0x730
    nl80211_trigger_scan+0xc69/0x1cc0
    genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x204/0x2f0
    genl_rcv_msg+0x431/0x6b0
    netlink_rcv_skb+0x143/0x3f0
    genl_rcv+0x27/0x40
    netlink_unicast+0x4f6/0x820
    netlink_sendmsg+0x797/0xce0
    __sock_sendmsg+0xc4/0x160
    ____sys_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x890
    ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x180
    __sys_sendmsg+0x136/0x1e0
    __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x76/0xc0
    x64_sys_call+0x13f0/0x17d0

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

Fixes: c8cb5b854b40 ("nl80211/cfg80211: support 6 GHz scanning")
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260601094157.92703-1-pchelkin@ispras.ru
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists

2026-06-02T11:25:19+00:00

nl80211_parse_rnr_elems() stores the parsed element count in a
u8-backed cfg80211_rnr_elems::cnt field and uses that count to size
the flexible array allocation.

Reject nested NL80211_ATTR_EMA_RNR_ELEMS input once the count reaches
255, before incrementing it again. This keeps the parser aligned with
the data structure it fills and matches the existing bound check used
by nl80211_parse_mbssid_elems().

Fixes: dbbb27e183b1 ("cfg80211: support RNR for EMA AP")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan 
Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang 
Reported-by: Xin Liu 
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Yuqi Xu 
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529152542.1412734-1-n05ec@lzu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: wext: validate chandef in monitor mode

2026-05-20T09:44:19+00:00

cfg80211_wext_siwfreq() constructs a channel definition for monitor
mode but passes it to cfg80211_set_monitor_channel() without first
validating it with cfg80211_chandef_valid(). This causes a WARN_ON
in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required() when it receives an invalid chandef.

Add the missing cfg80211_chandef_valid() check before calling
cfg80211_set_monitor_channel() to return -EINVAL early on invalid
channel definitions, consistent with how other callers handle this.

Reported-by: syzbot+02a1a03b8622d3c7d1c9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kartik Nair 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260510202437.7857-1-contact.kartikn@gmail.com
[clarify subject]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: cfg80211: advance loop vars in cfg80211_merge_profile()

2026-05-08T07:20:03+00:00

cfg80211_merge_profile() reassembles a Multi-BSSID non-transmitted BSS
profile that has been split across multiple consecutive MBSSID elements.
Its while-loop calls

	cfg80211_get_profile_continuation(ie, ielen, mbssid_elem, sub_elem)

but never advances mbssid_elem or sub_elem inside the body.  Each
iteration therefore searches for a continuation that follows the same
fixed pair; the helper returns the same next_mbssid; and the same
next_sub bytes are memcpy()'d into merged_ie at a growing offset until
the buffer fills.

Advance both mbssid_elem and sub_elem to the just-consumed continuation
so the next call to cfg80211_get_profile_continuation() searches for a
further continuation beyond it (or returns NULL when none exists).

A specially-crafted malicious beacon can take advantage of this bug
to cause the kernel to spend an excessive amount of time in
cfg80211_merge_profile (up to as much as 2ms per beacon received),
which could theoretically be abused in some way.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: fe806e4992c9 ("cfg80211: support profile split between elements")
Signed-off-by: John Walker 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507230720.64783-1-johnwalker0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: nl80211: re-check wiphy netns in nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump() continuation

2026-05-06T09:08:41+00:00

NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN is implemented as a multi-call dumpit. The first
invocation of nl80211_prepare_wdev_dump() validates the requested wdev
against the caller's netns via __cfg80211_wdev_from_attrs(). Subsequent
invocations look up the same wiphy by its global index and do not check
that the wiphy is still in the caller's netns.

Add the same filter to the continuation path. If the wiphy's netns no
longer matches the caller's, return -ENODEV and the netlink dump
machinery terminates the walk cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260506064854.2207105-3-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: nl80211: require CAP_NET_ADMIN over the target netns in SET_WIPHY_NETNS

2026-05-06T09:05:52+00:00

NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY_NETNS dispatches with GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM, which
verifies that the caller has CAP_NET_ADMIN for the source netns. It
doesn't verify that the caller has CAP_NET_ADMIN over the target netns
selected by NL80211_ATTR_NETNS_FD or NL80211_ATTR_PID.

This diverges from the convention enforced in
net/core/rtnetlink.c::rtnl_get_net_ns_capable():

    /* For now, the caller is required to have CAP_NET_ADMIN in
     * the user namespace owning the target net ns.
     */
    if (!sk_ns_capable(sk, net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
        return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);

A user with CAP_NET_ADMIN in their own user namespace can therefore
push a wiphy into an arbitrary netns (including init_net) over which
they have no privilege.

Mirror the rtnetlink convention by requiring CAP_NET_ADMIN in the
target netns before calling cfg80211_switch_netns().

Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260506064854.2207105-2-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_PMSR_FTM_REQ_ATTR_FTMS_PER_BURST usage

2026-05-06T09:03:21+00:00

This is documented as a u8 and has a policy of NLA_U8, but uses
nla_get_u32() which means it's completely broken on big-endian.
Fix it to use nla_get_u8().

Fixes: 9bb7e0f24e7e ("cfg80211: add peer measurement with FTM initiator API")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505113837.260159-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: nl80211: require admin perm on SET_PMK / DEL_PMK

2026-04-27T10:40:54+00:00

NL80211_CMD_SET_PMK and NL80211_CMD_DEL_PMK manage the offloaded
4-way-handshake PMK state used by drivers advertising
NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_4WAY_HANDSHAKE_STA_1X.  The only in-tree
driver that wires up both ->set_pmk / ->del_pmk and advertises
the feature today is brcmfmac, so the practical reach of this
patch is narrow.

Both ops were introduced without a .flags gate, so the generic
netlink layer dispatches them to an unprivileged caller instead
of rejecting with -EPERM at the permission check.  Every other
connection-state op in the adjacent block (CONNECT, ASSOCIATE,
AUTHENTICATE, SET_KEY, ...) carries GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM; SET_PMK
/ DEL_PMK were introduced without the flag in 2017 and left
unchanged by later refactors.  Johannes checked the original
Intel submission history and confirmed there is no admin check
in any prior revision either, so this seems likely to be a
simple oversight rather than an intentional carve-out.

Require GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM so the genl layer performs the same
capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check as its siblings.  wpa_supplicant
already needs CAP_NET_ADMIN for every other nl80211 op it issues,
so supplicant operation is unaffected.  The worst case the missing
gate enables today is an unprivileged local process on a
multi-user system invalidating the offloaded PMK state of another
user's 4-way-handshake session, forcing a full EAP re-auth on the
next reconnect.

Verified in UML: an unprivileged probe (uid=1000) sees
SET_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST (sibling op with GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
return -EPERM on both pre- and post-fix kernels, while SET_PMK /
DEL_PMK return -ENODEV from nl80211_pre_doit()'s wdev lookup pre-
fix (proving dispatch crossed the genl permission check) and
-EPERM post-fix (rejected at the genl layer as intended).

Suggested-by: Johannes Berg 
Fixes: 3a00df5707b6 ("cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for 802.1X")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito 
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421224552.4044147-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
     to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP

   - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
     output arguments for returning drop reason where possible

   - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
     the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints

   - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing

   - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
     itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
     thus making the table allocation size a power of two

   - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag

   - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
     randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space

   - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing

   - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter

   - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
     buffer size drifting up

   - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP

   - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
     This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage

   - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)

   - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
     unnecessary function calling indirection

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
     considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it

  Netfilter:

   - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
     object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.

     Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate

   - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
     switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
     walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex

   - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure

   - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable

  Wireless:

   - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth

   - Radar detection improvements

   - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs

   - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
     probing

   - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
     aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware

  Driver API:

   - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
     fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
     instances which span multiple PFs

   - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
     in mlx5 and fbnic)

   - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
     in mana)

   - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes

   - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)

   - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)

  Misc:

   - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter

  Drivers

   - Software:
      - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
        source MAC address
      - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
        LACP "independent control"

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
           coalescing)
         - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
           pages)
      - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
         - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
         - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
      - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
         - add link status and configuration handling
         - add various HW and SW statistics
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - NPC HW block support for cn20k
      - Huawei (hinic3):
         - add mailbox / control queue
         - add rx VLAN offload
         - add driver info and link management

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Marvell/Aquantia:
         - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
      - Realtek PCI (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8125cp
      - Realtek USB (r8152):
         - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
         - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
         - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
         - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
         - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
         - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
         - improve TCP segmentation handling
         - add support for Spacemit K3
      - Cadence (macb):
         - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
         - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
         - rework usrio capabilities and handling
      - AMD (xgbe):
         - improve power management for S0i3
         - improve TX resilience for link-down handling

   - Virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
         - improve HW-GRO handling
         - support UDP GSO for DQO format
      - PCIe NTB:
         - support queue count configuration

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
      - Broadcom:
         - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
      - Micrel:
         - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
      - Realtek:
         - add RTL8224 pair order support
         - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
         - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
      - Maxlinear:
         - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
         - support for bridge offloading
         - support for VLANs
         - support driver statistics

   - Bluetooth:
      - large number of fixes and new device IDs
      - Mediatek:
         - support MT6639 (MT7927)
         - support MT7902 SDIO

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
         - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
         - basic hwmon temperature reporting
         - support IPQ5424
      - Realtek:
         - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
         - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs

   - Cellular:
      - IPA v5.2 support"

* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
  net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
  wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
  wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
  tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
  wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
  MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
  selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
  selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
  tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
  net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
  net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
  net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
  net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
  net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
  selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
  net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
  net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
  sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
  net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
  ...