brcmfmac: brcmf_parse_vndr_ies: invalid vndr ie. length is too small 4

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, linux

Research direction

Start at the brcmf_parse_vndr_ies entry point and reproduce WiFi P2P-GO on a Raspberry Pi 4 using the 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS setup described. Confirm the invalid vendor IE message and determine whether the excessive kernel-log spam can be stopped without affecting WiFi Direct operation.

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Description

When using the PI4 (with raspios aarch64 lite) as a Wifi P2P-GO (Wifi Direct),
the line [ 60.941291] brcmfmac: brcmf_parse_vndr_ies: invalid vndr ie. length is too small 4 is spammed in the kernel log about twice per second. Didn't observe that with previous 32 bit based versions.
Everything seems to work fine from my testing, but the excessive logging is quite annoying.
grafik

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