Re: [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()

[Deepanshu Kartikey]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

> I don't believe you'd need to even export this, and we also already have
> validate_ie_attr() in nl80211, written in a better way too...
>
> johannes

Hi Johannes,

validate_ie_attr() takes a struct nlattr * but the wext path
works with a raw char * buffer, so it cannot be called directly.

I have reused the same approach using for_each_element() and
for_each_element_completed() instead. Is this acceptable?

Thanks

Deepanshu