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| author | Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com> | 2026-07-28 17:54:55 +0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-09-01 12:15:16 +0200 |
| commit | ff917923f4fb9c83717ba135ee47d7e4c1567bb7 (patch) | |
| tree | c38fd8fcf58e1937b17fdbc6518b6f8b797fc15a /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | |
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staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_action_frame_parse()grafted
rtw_action_frame_parse() takes a frame_len parameter but never
actually checks it before indexing into the frame body:
const u8 *frame_body = frame + sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr);
...
c = frame_body[0];
...
a = frame_body[1];
frame_body already points 24 bytes (sizeof(struct
ieee80211_hdr_3addr)) into frame, so reading frame_body[0] and
frame_body[1] requires frame_len >= 26. A management action frame
shorter than that (e.g. exactly 24 bytes, the minimum a malicious
peer can send) causes a 1-2 byte out-of-bounds read.
This is reachable from rtw_cfg80211_monitor_if_xmit_entry() and
cfg80211_rtw_mgmt_tx() in ioctl_cfg80211.c, both of which pass
attacker/user-influenced frame buffers and lengths straight through.
Add the missing length check before frame_body is dereferenced.
Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260728125456.32359-3-meatuni001@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..02a725536 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. _kernelparameters: + +The kernel's command-line parameters +==================================== + +The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented +by the __setup(), early_param(), core_param() and module_param() macros +and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all +punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive +manner), and with descriptions where known. + +The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "``--``"; +if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the +parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's +environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init. +Everything after "``--``" is passed as an argument to init. + +Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command +line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:: + + (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1 + (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1 + +Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be +specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the +kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters +when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for +loadable modules too. + +This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command +"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable +module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also +reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these +parameters may be changed at runtime by the command +``echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}``. + +Special handling +---------------- + +Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so:: + + log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1 + +can also be entered as:: + + log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1 + +Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:: + + param="spaces in here" + +cpu lists +~~~~~~~~~ + +Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus, +nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is: + + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> + +or + + <cpu number>-<cpu number> + (must be a positive range in ascending order) + +or a mixture + +<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> + +Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal +sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that +group: + + <cpu number>-<cpu number>:<used size>/<group size> + +For example one can add to the command line following parameter: + + isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25 + +where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,... + +The value "N" can be used to represent the numerically last CPU on the system, +i.e "foo_cpus=16-N" would be equivalent to "16-31" on a 32 core system. + +Keep in mind that "N" is dynamic, so if system changes cause the bitmap width +to change, such as less cores in the CPU list, then N and any ranges using N +will also change. Use the same on a small 4 core system, and "16-N" becomes +"16-3" and now the same boot input will be flagged as invalid (start > end). + +The special case-tolerant group name "all" has a meaning of selecting all CPUs, +so that "nohz_full=all" is the equivalent of "nohz_full=0-N". + +The semantics of "N" and "all" is supported on a level of bitmaps and holds for +all users of bitmap_parselist(). + +Metric suffixes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel +parameter values. 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P', and 'E' suffixes are allowed. +These letters represent the _binary_ multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', 'Giga', +'Tera', 'Peta', and 'Exa', equaling 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, 2^40, 2^50, and +2^60 bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. + +Kernel Build Options +-------------------- + +The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options +were enabled and if respective hardware is present. This list should be kept +in alphabetical order. The text in square brackets at the beginning +of each description states the restrictions within which a parameter +is applicable. + +Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot +loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. +Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme +need or coordination with <Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst>. + +There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here. + +Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that +a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that the parameter will +be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that +it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs +running once the system is up. + +The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the +complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to +a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture +and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file +./include/uapi/asm-generic/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. + +.. include:: kernel-parameters.txt + :literal: |
