This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: rtl8192u: Fix use after free in ieee80211_rx() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: staging-rtl8192u-fix-use-after-free-in-ieee80211_rx.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f498eedce2e6dc2bcc28e1bff75a2aab80a257ed Author: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 23 09:43:14 2022 +0300 staging: rtl8192u: Fix use after free in ieee80211_rx() [ Upstream commit bcc5e2dcf09089b337b76fc1a589f6ff95ca19ac ] We cannot dereference the "skb" pointer after calling ieee80211_monitor_rx(), because it is a use after free. Fixes: 8fc8598e61f6 ("Staging: Added Realtek rtl8192u driver to staging") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y33BArx3k/aw6yv/@kili Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c index b58e75932ecd..3686b3c599ce 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c @@ -951,9 +951,11 @@ int ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb, #endif if (ieee->iw_mode == IW_MODE_MONITOR) { + unsigned int len = skb->len; + ieee80211_monitor_rx(ieee, skb, rx_stats); stats->rx_packets++; - stats->rx_bytes += skb->len; + stats->rx_bytes += len; return 1; }