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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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+===================================
+Dell Systems Management Base Driver
+===================================
+
+Overview
+========
+
+The Dell Systems Management Base Driver provides a sysfs interface for
+systems management software such as Dell OpenManage to perform system
+management interrupts and host control actions (system power cycle or
+power off after OS shutdown) on certain Dell systems.
+
+Dell OpenManage requires this driver on the following Dell PowerEdge systems:
+300, 1300, 1400, 400SC, 500SC, 1500SC, 1550, 600SC, 1600SC, 650, 1655MC,
+700, and 750. Other Dell software such as the open source libsmbios project
+is expected to make use of this driver, and it may include the use of this
+driver on other Dell systems.
+
+The Dell libsmbios project aims towards providing access to as much BIOS
+information as possible. See http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ for
+more information about the libsmbios project.
+
+
+System Management Interrupt
+===========================
+
+On some Dell systems, systems management software must access certain
+management information via a system management interrupt (SMI). The SMI data
+buffer must reside in 32-bit address space, and the physical address of the
+buffer is required for the SMI. The driver maintains the memory required for
+the SMI and provides a way for the application to generate the SMI.
+The driver creates the following sysfs entries for systems management
+software to perform these system management interrupts::
+
+ /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data
+ /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data_buf_phys_addr
+ /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data_buf_size
+ /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_request
+
+Systems management software must perform the following steps to execute
+a SMI using this driver:
+
+1) Lock smi_data.
+2) Write system management command to smi_data.
+3) Write "1" to smi_request to generate a calling interface SMI or
+ "2" to generate a raw SMI.
+4) Read system management command response from smi_data.
+5) Unlock smi_data.
+
+
+Host Control Action
+===================
+
+Dell OpenManage supports a host control feature that allows the administrator
+to perform a power cycle or power off of the system after the OS has finished
+shutting down. On some Dell systems, this host control feature requires that
+a driver perform a SMI after the OS has finished shutting down.
+
+The driver creates the following sysfs entries for systems management software
+to schedule the driver to perform a power cycle or power off host control
+action after the system has finished shutting down:
+
+/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/host_control_action
+/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/host_control_smi_type
+/sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/host_control_on_shutdown
+
+Dell OpenManage performs the following steps to execute a power cycle or
+power off host control action using this driver:
+
+1) Write host control action to be performed to host_control_action.
+2) Write type of SMI that driver needs to perform to host_control_smi_type.
+3) Write "1" to host_control_on_shutdown to enable host control action.
+4) Initiate OS shutdown.
+ (Driver will perform host control SMI when it is notified that the OS
+ has finished shutting down.)
+
+
+Host Control SMI Type
+=====================
+
+The following table shows the value to write to host_control_smi_type to
+perform a power cycle or power off host control action:
+
+=================== =====================
+PowerEdge System Host Control SMI Type
+=================== =====================
+ 300 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE1
+ 1300 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE1
+ 1400 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 500SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 1500SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 1550 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 600SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 1600SC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 650 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 1655MC HC_SMITYPE_TYPE2
+ 700 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE3
+ 750 HC_SMITYPE_TYPE3
+=================== =====================