mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838467 commit 63d7ef36 upstream. 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: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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