This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: staging-rtl8188eu-avoid-a-null-dereference-on-pmlmepriv.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 18:04:41 CET 2017
From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:40:24 +0200 Subject: staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv
From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com
[ Upstream commit 123c0aab0050cd0e07ce18e453389fbbb0a5a425 ]
There is a check on pmlmepriv before dereferencing it when vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf however the previous call to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data deferences pmlmepriv causing a null pointer deference if it is null. Avoid this by also calling rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data if the pointer is non-null.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1230262 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 7b464c9fa5cc ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 4") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct m
void rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) { - rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); - - if (pmlmepriv) + if (pmlmepriv) { + rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); + } }
struct wlan_network *_rtw_alloc_network(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@canonical.com are
queue-4.14/staging-rtl8188eu-avoid-a-null-dereference-on-pmlmepriv.patch