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wifi: mac80211: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ieee80211_monitor_select_queue()

PATCH New Cen Zhang (Microsoft) 1 participant 1 message Sep 25 mac80211

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PATCH 1/1 wifi: mac80211: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ieee80211_monitor_select_queue()

ieee80211_monitor_select_queue() validates the skb length using skb->len before dereferencing pointers into skb->data to access the 802.11 header. However, skb->len includes data in both the linear head buffer and non-linear fragments/pages. When AF_PACKET sends a packet large enough to become non-linear, the 802.11 header at skb->data + len_rthdr may extend past the linear head buffer even though skb->len appears sufficient.

This leads to a slab-out-of-bounds read when accessing hdr->frame_control, as the kernel reads beyond the allocated skb head buffer:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ieee80211_monitor_select_queue+0x1ed/0x220

syzbot has hit the same issues.

Fix this by checking skb_headlen(skb) (which gives the length of the linear data region) instead of skb->len before dereferencing skb->data pointers. This ensures the required bytes are actually present in the linear portion of the skb.

Apply the same fix to ieee80211_validate_radiotap_len() which has the same class of bug: it uses skb->len to validate accesses to skb->data, and to the corresponding checks in ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(): for drivers advertising NETIF_F_SG the skb is not linearized before ndo_start_xmit, so the 802.11 header can be read past the linear buffer there as well.

Fixes cf0277e714a0 ("mac80211: fix skb buffering issue")
Fixes 9b8a74e3482f ("[MAC80211]: Improve sanity checks on injected packets")
Reported-by [email protected]
Reported-by [email protected]
Reported-by [email protected]
Assisted-by GitHub-Copilot:claude-opus-4.6
---
 net/mac80211/iface.c |  4 ++--
 net/mac80211/tx.c    | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
net/mac80211/iface.c +2 -2
index 889c32fd8de1..88942317fec8 100644
@@ -998,8 +998,8 @@ static u16 ieee80211_monitor_select_queue(struct net_device *dev,
 
 	len_rthdr = ieee80211_get_radiotap_len(skb->data);
 	hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)(skb->data + len_rthdr);
-	if (skb->len < len_rthdr + 2 ||
-	    skb->len < len_rthdr + ieee80211_hdrlen(hdr->frame_control))
+	if (skb_headlen(skb) < len_rthdr + 2 ||
+	    skb_headlen(skb) < len_rthdr + ieee80211_hdrlen(hdr->frame_control))
 		return 0; /* doesn't matter, frame will be dropped */
 
 	return ieee80211_select_queue_80211(sdata, skb, hdr);
net/mac80211/tx.c +5 -5
index c8217f6d146e..487cddd09388 100644
@@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_validate_radiotap_len(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *)skb->data;
 
 	/* check for not even having the fixed radiotap header part */
-	if (unlikely(skb->len < sizeof(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header)))
+	if (unlikely(skb_headlen(skb) < sizeof(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header)))
 		return false; /* too short to be possibly valid */
 
 	/* is it a header version we can trust to find length from? */
@@ -2099,7 +2099,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_validate_radiotap_len(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		return false; /* only version 0 is supported */
 
 	/* does the skb contain enough to deliver on the alleged length? */
-	if (unlikely(skb->len < ieee80211_get_radiotap_len(skb->data)))
+	if (unlikely(skb_headlen(skb) < ieee80211_get_radiotap_len(skb->data)))
 		return false; /* skb too short for claimed rt header extent */
 
 	return true;
@@ -2388,13 +2388,13 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	skb_set_network_header(skb, len_rthdr);
 	skb_set_transport_header(skb, len_rthdr);
 
-	if (skb->len < len_rthdr + 2)
+	if (skb_headlen(skb) < len_rthdr + 2)
 		goto fail;
 
 	hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)(skb->data + len_rthdr);
 	hdrlen = ieee80211_hdrlen(hdr->frame_control);
 
-	if (skb->len < len_rthdr + hdrlen)
+	if (skb_headlen(skb) < len_rthdr + hdrlen)
 		goto fail;
 
 	/*
@@ -2402,7 +2402,7 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	 * carrying a rfc1042 header
 	 */
 	if (ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) &&
-	    skb->len >= len_rthdr + hdrlen + sizeof(rfc1042_header) + 2) {
+	    skb_headlen(skb) >= len_rthdr + hdrlen + sizeof(rfc1042_header) + 2) {
 		u8 *payload = (u8 *)hdr + hdrlen;
 
 		if (ether_addr_equal(payload, rfc1042_header))

base-commit: 2445e83a434a1964e574f792bd4b8e921cb9d54d

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