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net80211: correct length check in ieee80211_ies_expand()

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net80211: correct length check in ieee80211_ies_expand()

In ieee80211_ies_expand() we are looping over Elements
(also known as Information Elements or IEs).
The comment suggests that we assume well-formedness of
the IEs themselves.
Checking the buffer length being least 2 (1 byte Element ID and
1 byte Length fields) rather than just 1 before accessing ie[1]
is still good practise and can prevent and out-of-bounds read in
case the input is not behaving according to the comment.

Reported by: (coypu sdf.org)
admbugs: 857
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: adrian, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32340

(cherry picked from commit 09dd08f167812a5fdb516fc98f14dbb43221432f)

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Provenance
bzAuthored on Oct 6 2021, 6:09 PM
emasteCommitted on Feb 14 2022, 10:00 PM
Reviewer
adrian
Differential Revision
D32340: net80211: correct length check in ieee80211_ies_expand()
Parents
rG7c6fb056cca7: random(4): Generalize algorithm-independent APIs
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