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Linmao Li 7769bb2457 wifi: nxpwifi: fix the authentication frame length handling
nxpwifi_cfg80211_authenticate() builds a 3-address management frame in a
temporary buffer and hands it to nxpwifi_form_mgmt_frame(), which copies
it into the skb and splices in address4.  The frame length is tracked in
a single u16 that conflates the two lengths, and it gets both wrong.

Truncation.  req->ie_len and req->auth_data_len are both size_t.  The IE
policy caps req->ie_len at IEEE80211_MAX_DATA_LEN, but
NL80211_ATTR_AUTH_DATA only has a four-byte minimum length policy.  Since
nla_len is a u16, a single authentication data attribute can carry up to
65531 bytes, enough for the combined frame length to exceed U16_MAX
before it is assigned to pkt_len.  With auth_data_len == 65510 and no IEs
the length wraps to 6, kzalloc(6) succeeds, and the memcpy() below then
writes 65506 user-provided bytes past a 6-byte heap object.

Geometry.  NXPWIFI_MGMT_HEADER_LEN is 30, which is the 24-byte 3-address
header plus the address4 that the firmware expects.  The temporary buffer
only holds a struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr, so six of the bytes accounted
for are never used, and passing that length to nxpwifi_form_mgmt_frame()
makes it append ETH_ALEN on top of a length that already included it.
The skb is sized without those six bytes, so the last skb_put_data()
overruns the tailroom by exactly ETH_ALEN.  It usually goes unnoticed
because SKB_DATA_ALIGN() rounding leaves slack.  The driver's other
caller of the helper, nxpwifi_cfg80211_mgmt_tx(), adds ETH_ALEN to the
skb size before allocating and passes the 3-address length, which is what
this path should do too.

Keep the two lengths apart.  frame_len is the 3-address frame the driver
builds: it sizes the temporary buffer and is what the helper is told.
pkt_len is what the firmware sees, frame_len plus address4: it sizes the
skb and goes into tx_info.  Computing frame_len in size_t and rejecting
anything that cannot be represented once ETH_ALEN is added removes the
wrap.

The value handed to the firmware is unchanged, so this is not a
behavioural change for frames that were already valid.  A tighter 802.11
bound may make sense, but that depends on the firmware's frame format and
is a separate decision.

Fixes: 73b01e57ed ("wifi: nxp: add nxpwifi driver for IW61x")
Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <lilinmao@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Chen <jeff.chen_1@nxp.com>
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