8.2

CVE-2024-38616

wifi: carl9170: re-fix fortified-memset warning

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: carl9170: re-fix fortified-memset warning

The carl9170_tx_release() function sometimes triggers a fortified-memset
warning in my randconfig builds:

In file included from include/linux/string.h:254,
                 from drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:40:
In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
    inlined from 'carl9170_tx_release' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:283:2,
    inlined from 'kref_put' at include/linux/kref.h:65:3,
    inlined from 'carl9170_tx_put_skb' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:342:9:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:493:25: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
  493 |                         __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);

Kees previously tried to avoid this by using memset_after(), but it seems
this does not fully address the problem. I noticed that the memset_after()
here is done on a different part of the union (status) than the original
cast was from (rate_driver_data), which may confuse the compiler.

Unfortunately, the memset_after() trick does not work on driver_rates[]
because that is part of an anonymous struct, and I could not get
struct_group() to do this either. Using two separate memset() calls
on the two members does address the warning though.
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.17 < 6.1.93
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.33
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.8.12
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.9 < 6.9.3
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 8.2 3.9 4.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.