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 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8dcd958f624920570caf21ac9e81d30aa5e72a7b
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 df2989c35fd86..15f28203445cb 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -11492,6 +11492,8 @@ 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);
