This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: nl80211: don't free NULL coalescing rule to the 6.6-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: wifi-nl80211-don-t-free-null-coalescing-rule.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d6e174f6148d88419fd1648ff249313353c50e00 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 18 10:52:23 2024 +0200 wifi: nl80211: don't free NULL coalescing rule [ Upstream commit 801ea33ae82d6a9d954074fbcf8ea9d18f1543a7 ] If the parsing fails, we can dereference a NULL pointer here. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: be29b99a9b51 ("cfg80211/nl80211: Add packet coalesce support") Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/20240418105220.b328f80406e7.Id75d961050deb05b3e4e354e024866f350c68103@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 9f6d8bcecfebe..c4f08f7eb741d 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -14052,6 +14052,8 @@ static int nl80211_set_coalesce(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) error: for (i = 0; i < new_coalesce.n_rules; i++) { tmp_rule = &new_coalesce.rules[i]; + if (!tmp_rule) + continue; for (j = 0; j < tmp_rule->n_patterns; j++) kfree(tmp_rule->patterns[j].mask); kfree(tmp_rule->patterns);