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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2021-11-18 12:38:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2021-11-26 11:54:03 +0100 |
| commit | fb5f6a0e8063b7a84d6d44ef353846ccd7708d2e (patch) | |
| tree | 80855ee79eca1dbf02442ae112e37ce3b3924867 /drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c | |
| parent | eb87d3e08992b2939d91b649630dfa11f4d2cd75 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fb5f6a0e8063b7a84d6d44ef353846ccd7708d2e.tar.bz2 | |
mac80211: Use memset_after() to clear tx status
In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
neighboring fields.
Use memset_after() so memset() doesn't get confused about writing
beyond the destination member that is intended to be the starting point
of zeroing through the end of the struct.
Additionally fix the common helper, ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(),
which was not clearing ack_signal, but the open-coded versions
did. Johannes Berg points out this bug was introduced by commit
e3e1a0bcb3f1 ("mac80211: reduce IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES") but was harmless.
Also drops the associated unneeded BUILD_BUG_ON()s, and adds a note to
carl9170 about usage.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> [both CARL9170+P54USB on real HW]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211118203839.1289276-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c index 873fea59894f..8414aa208655 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/txrx.c @@ -431,11 +431,7 @@ static void p54_rx_frame_sent(struct p54_common *priv, struct sk_buff *skb) * Clear manually, ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status would * clear the counts too and we need them. */ - memset(&info->status.ack_signal, 0, - sizeof(struct ieee80211_tx_info) - - offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.ack_signal)); - BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, - status.ack_signal) != 20); + memset_after(&info->status, 0, rates); if (entry_hdr->flags & cpu_to_le16(P54_HDR_FLAG_DATA_ALIGN)) pad = entry_data->align[0]; |