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When called from\nmesh_rx_csa_frame(), the parsed action-frame elements may not contain a\nMesh Configuration IE, leaving ie->mesh_config NULL and triggering a\nkernel NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThe other two callers are already safe:\n - ieee80211_mesh_rx_bcn_presp() checks !elems->mesh_config before\n calling mesh_matches_local()\n - mesh_plink_get_event() is only reached through\n mesh_process_plink_frame(), which checks !elems->mesh_config, too\n\nmesh_rx_csa_frame() is the only caller that passes raw parsed elements\nto mesh_matches_local() without guarding mesh_config. An adjacent\nattacker can exploit this by sending a crafted CSA action frame that\nincludes a valid Mesh ID IE but omits the Mesh Configuration IE,\ncrashing the kernel.\n\nThe captured crash log:\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nWorkqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \n ? __pfx_mesh_matches_local (net/mac80211/mesh.c:65)\n ieee80211_mesh_rx_queued_mgmt (net/mac80211/mesh.c:1686)\n [...]\n ieee80211_iface_work (net/mac80211/iface.c:1754 net/mac80211/iface.c:1802)\n [...]\n cfg80211_wiphy_work (net/wireless/core.c:426)\n process_one_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3280)\n ? assign_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:1219)\n worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3352)\n ? __pfx_worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3385)\n kthread (net/kernel/kthread.c:436)\n [...]\n ret_from_fork_asm (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:255)\n \n\nThis patch adds a NULL check 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