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Commit 63d7ef36 authored by Brian Norris's avatar Brian Norris Committed by Kalle Valo
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mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs

Per the 802.11 specification, vendor IEs are (at minimum) only required
to contain an OUI. A type field is also included in ieee80211.h (struct
ieee80211_vendor_ie) but doesn't appear in the specification. The
remaining fields (subtype, version) are a convention used in WMM
headers.

Thus, we should not reject vendor-specific IEs that have only the
minimum length (3 bytes) -- we should skip over them (since we only want
to match longer IEs, that match either WMM or WPA formats). We can
reject elements that don't have the minimum-required 3 byte OUI.

While we're at it, move the non-standard subtype and version fields into
the WMM structs, to avoid this confusion in the future about generic
"vendor header" attributes.

Fixes: 685c9b77

 ("mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element")
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
parent 608fd721
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