[PATCH 1/2] wifi: mt76: mt7915: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy

From: Bryam Vargas via B4 Relay

Date: Thu Jun 25 2026 - 08:13:48 EST


From: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>

mt7915_mcu_get_eeprom() copies a fixed EFUSE block into the driver's
dev->mt76.eeprom.data buffer at the offset reported by the MCU response
(res->addr, a device-controlled __le32) without checking it against the
buffer size. A malicious or malfunctioning device can report an arbitrary
address and drive a 16-byte out-of-bounds write past eeprom.data.

Reject a response whose address would place the copy outside eeprom.data
before deriving the destination pointer. Devices that echo the requested
in-bounds offset are unaffected.

Fixes: e57b7901469f ("mt76: add mac80211 driver for MT7915 PCIe-based chipsets")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c
index 4a381d351e61..f39eae3c4c1c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c
@@ -2909,8 +2909,15 @@ int mt7915_mcu_get_eeprom(struct mt7915_dev *dev, u32 offset, u8 *read_buf)
return ret;

res = (struct mt7915_mcu_eeprom_info *)skb->data;
- if (!buf)
- buf = dev->mt76.eeprom.data + le32_to_cpu(res->addr);
+ if (!buf) {
+ u32 addr = le32_to_cpu(res->addr);
+
+ if (addr > dev->mt76.eeprom.size - MT7915_EEPROM_BLOCK_SIZE) {
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ buf = dev->mt76.eeprom.data + addr;
+ }
memcpy(buf, res->data, MT7915_EEPROM_BLOCK_SIZE);

dev_kfree_skb(skb);

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2.43.0