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 6.0-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-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2d097c75dee0531c12047d483cc2468a57d3fbf9
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;
}
