[PATCH 3/3] wifi: mt76: mt7925: validate NIC capability payload lengths

From: Jiale Yao

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 01:09:19 EST


The NIC capability parser only checks whether a declared TLV length fits
in the skb. It does not reject lengths shorter than the TLV header or
ensure that known payloads contain the fields consumed by the driver. A
truncated firmware response can therefore stall the parser on a zero
length TLV or cause out-of-bounds reads from fixed-size payloads.

Reject undersized TLVs and validate every known payload before accessing
it.

Fixes: c948b5da6bbe ("wifi: mt76: mt7925: add Mediatek Wi-Fi7 driver for mt7925 chips")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jiale Yao <yaojiale02@xxxxxxx>
---
.../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c | 43 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
index c612fda55eb7..41138203ada2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c
@@ -1039,8 +1039,8 @@ int mt7925_mcu_get_temperature(struct mt792x_phy *phy)
return temperature;
}

-static void
-mt7925_mcu_parse_phy_cap(struct mt792x_dev *dev, char *data)
+static bool
+mt7925_mcu_parse_phy_cap(struct mt792x_dev *dev, char *data, int len)
{
struct mt76_phy *mphy = &dev->mt76.phy;
struct mt76_dev *mdev = mphy->dev;
@@ -1064,16 +1064,21 @@ mt7925_mcu_parse_phy_cap(struct mt792x_dev *dev, char *data)
WF0_5G
};

+ if (len < sizeof(*cap))
+ return false;
+
cap = (struct mt7925_mcu_phy_cap *)data;

mdev->phy.antenna_mask = BIT(cap->nss) - 1;
mdev->phy.chainmask = mdev->phy.antenna_mask;
mdev->phy.cap.has_2ghz = cap->hw_path & BIT(WF0_24G);
mdev->phy.cap.has_5ghz = cap->hw_path & BIT(WF0_5G);
+
+ return true;
}

-static void
-mt7925_mcu_parse_eml_cap(struct mt792x_dev *dev, char *data)
+static bool
+mt7925_mcu_parse_eml_cap(struct mt792x_dev *dev, char *data, int len)
{
struct mt7925_mcu_eml_cap {
u8 rsv[4];
@@ -1081,9 +1086,14 @@ mt7925_mcu_parse_eml_cap(struct mt792x_dev *dev, char *data)
u8 rsv2[6];
} __packed * cap;

+ if (len < sizeof(*cap))
+ return false;
+
cap = (struct mt7925_mcu_eml_cap *)data;

dev->phy.eml_cap = le16_to_cpu(cap->eml_cap);
+
+ return true;
}

static int
@@ -1121,36 +1131,53 @@ mt7925_mcu_get_nic_capability(struct mt792x_dev *dev)

for (i = 0; i < le16_to_cpu(hdr->n_element); i++) {
struct tlv *tlv = (struct tlv *)skb->data;
- int len;
+ int data_len, len;

if (skb->len < sizeof(*tlv))
break;

len = le16_to_cpu(tlv->len);
- if (skb->len < len)
+ if (len < sizeof(*tlv) || skb->len < len)
break;
+ data_len = len - sizeof(*tlv);

switch (le16_to_cpu(tlv->tag)) {
case MT_NIC_CAP_6G:
+ if (len < sizeof(*tlv) + sizeof(tlv->data[0]))
+ goto invalid;
+
mphy->cap.has_6ghz = !!tlv->data[0];
break;
case MT_NIC_CAP_MAC_ADDR:
+ if (len < sizeof(*tlv) + ETH_ALEN)
+ goto invalid;
+
memcpy(mphy->macaddr, (void *)tlv->data, ETH_ALEN);
break;
case MT_NIC_CAP_PHY:
- mt7925_mcu_parse_phy_cap(dev, tlv->data);
+ if (!mt7925_mcu_parse_phy_cap(dev, tlv->data, data_len))
+ goto invalid;
break;
case MT_NIC_CAP_CHIP_CAP:
+ if (len < sizeof(*tlv) + sizeof(__le64))
+ goto invalid;
+
dev->phy.chip_cap = le64_to_cpu(*(__le64 *)tlv->data);
break;
case MT_NIC_CAP_EML_CAP:
- mt7925_mcu_parse_eml_cap(dev, tlv->data);
+ if (!mt7925_mcu_parse_eml_cap(dev, tlv->data, data_len))
+ goto invalid;
break;
default:
break;
}
skb_pull(skb, len);
}
+
+ goto out;
+
+invalid:
+ ret = -EINVAL;
out:
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
return ret;
--
2.34.1