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Re: [PATCH 1/2] libertas: don't exit from lbs_ibss_join_existing() with RCU read lock held

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Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit e5e884b42639 ("libertas: Fix two buffer overflows at parsing bss
> descriptor") introduced a bounds check on the number of supplied rates to
> lbs_ibss_join_existing().
> 
> Unfortunately, it introduced a return path from within a RCU read side
> critical section without a corresponding rcu_read_unlock(). Fix this.
> 
> Fixes: e5e884b42639 ("libertas: Fix two buffer overflows at parsing bss
>                       descriptor")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx>

I'll queue these to v5.5, unless Linus releases the final today and then they
will go to v5.6.

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11331869/

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