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Xiang Mei 74de6fa472 wifi: mac80211: fix NULL deref in mesh_matches_local() 
[ Upstream commit c73bb9a2d3 ]

mesh_matches_local() unconditionally dereferences ie->mesh_config to
compare mesh configuration parameters. When called from
mesh_rx_csa_frame(), the parsed action-frame elements may not contain a
Mesh Configuration IE, leaving ie->mesh_config NULL and triggering a
kernel NULL pointer dereference.

The other two callers are already safe:
  - ieee80211_mesh_rx_bcn_presp() checks !elems->mesh_config before
    calling mesh_matches_local()
  - mesh_plink_get_event() is only reached through
    mesh_process_plink_frame(), which checks !elems->mesh_config, too

mesh_rx_csa_frame() is the only caller that passes raw parsed elements
to mesh_matches_local() without guarding mesh_config. An adjacent
attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted CSA action frame that
includes a valid Mesh ID IE but omits the Mesh Configuration IE,
crashing the kernel.

The captured crash log:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __pfx_mesh_matches_local (net/mac80211/mesh.c:65)
 ieee80211_mesh_rx_queued_mgmt (net/mac80211/mesh.c:1686)
 [...]
 ieee80211_iface_work (net/mac80211/iface.c:1754 net/mac80211/iface.c:1802)
 [...]
 cfg80211_wiphy_work (net/wireless/core.c:426)
 process_one_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3280)
 ? assign_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:1219)
 worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3352)
 ? __pfx_worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3385)
 kthread (net/kernel/kthread.c:436)
 [...]
 ret_from_fork_asm (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:255)
 </TASK>

This patch adds a NULL check for ie->mesh_config at the top of
mesh_matches_local() to return false early when the Mesh Configuration
IE is absent.

Fixes: 2e3c873682 ("mac80211: support functions for mesh")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318034244.2595020-1-xmei5@asu.edu
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-04-18 10:33:21 +02:00
arch x86/apic: Disable x2apic on resume if the kernel expects so 2026-04-18 10:33:16 +02:00
block blk-mq-debugfs: add missing debugfs_mutex in blk_mq_debugfs_register_hctxs() 2026-03-04 07:19:59 -05:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:22:01 +02:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec 2026-02-06 16:41:53 +01:00
Documentation net: dpaa2: replace dpaa2_mac_is_type_fixed() with dpaa2_mac_is_type_phy() 2026-04-18 10:33:09 +02:00
drivers igc: fix missing update of skb->tail in igc_xmit_frame() 2026-04-18 10:33:21 +02:00
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ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:05:26 +01:00
kernel sched: idle: Consolidate the handling of two special cases 2026-04-18 10:33:21 +02:00
lib lib/bootconfig: check bounds before writing in __xbc_open_brace() 2026-04-18 10:33:16 +02:00
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mm mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather 2026-04-18 10:33:18 +02:00
net wifi: mac80211: fix NULL deref in mesh_matches_local() 2026-04-18 10:33:21 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-28 16:24:07 +02:00
scripts modpost: Amend ppc64 save/restfpr symnames for -Os build 2026-03-04 07:20:06 -05:00
security apparmor: fix invalid deref of rawdata when export_binary is unset 2026-03-04 07:19:53 -05:00
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tools selftests: mptcp: more stable simult_flows tests 2026-04-18 10:33:09 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:05:22 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
Makefile Linux 5.15.202 2026-03-04 07:37:37 -05:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.