Re: [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: bound uAP association event IEs to the event buffer
From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 03:44:40 EST
On Fri, 2026-07-10 at 09:21 +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> I think we received a few patches that are validating the data received
> from the firmware (including this one).
>
> I did not review any of them yet, what is your opinion on those?
>
> Should we consider the firmware trust-worth or should we validate
> everything we receive from it? Is there some agreement on this topic in
> general?
I don't really know fully "in general", but I/we generally treat these
as issues. I'm not going to worry too much about them, but I think we
should fix them.
johannes