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Syzkaller reports buffer overflow false positive as follows:
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memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 8) of single field
	"&compat_event->pointer" at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 (size 4)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3607 at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623
	wireless_send_event+0xab5/0xca0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:623
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 3607 Comm: syz-executor659 Not tainted
	6.0.0-rc6-next-20220921-syzkaller #0
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ioctl_standard_call+0x155/0x1f0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1022
 wireless_process_ioctl+0xc8/0x4c0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:955
 wext_ioctl_dispatch net/wireless/wext-core.c:988 [inline]
 wext_ioctl_dispatch net/wireless/wext-core.c:976 [inline]
 wext_handle_ioctl+0x26b/0x280 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1049
 sock_ioctl+0x285/0x640 net/socket.c:1220
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
 [...]
 </TASK>

Wireless events will be sent on the appropriate channels in
wireless_send_event(). Different wireless events may have different
payload structure and size, so kernel uses **len** and **cmd** field
in struct __compat_iw_event as wireless event common LCP part, uses
**pointer** as a label to mark the position of remaining different part.

Yet the problem is that, **pointer** is a compat_caddr_t type, which may
be smaller than the relative structure at the same position. So during
wireless_send_event() tries to parse the wireless events payload, it may
trigger the memcpy() run-time destination buffer bounds checking when the
relative structure's data is copied to the position marked by **pointer**.

This patch solves it by introducing flexible-array field **ptr_bytes**,
to mark the position of the wireless events remaining part next to
LCP part. What's more, this patch also adds **ptr_len** variable in
wireless_send_event() to improve its maintainability.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+473754e5af963cf014cf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000070db2005e95a5984@google.com/

Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>