This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
From 23954cb078febfc63a755301fe77e06bccdb4d2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:02:33 -0600 Subject: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
In routine wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is checked to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but the code does not detect the case where p->length is greater than the size of the struct, thus a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory. Fixes commit 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").
Reported by: Pietro Oliva pietroliva@gmail.com Cc: Pietro Oliva pietroliva@gmail.com Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver"). Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-5-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index 3128766dd50e..2ac0d84f090e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -3373,7 +3373,7 @@ static int wpa_supplicant_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p)
/* down(&ieee->wx_sem); */
- if (p->length < sizeof(struct ieee_param) || !p->pointer) { + if (!p->pointer || p->length != sizeof(struct ieee_param)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; }