This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv
to the 4.14-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-rtl8188eu-avoid-a-null-dereference-on-pmlmepriv.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 18:04:41 CET 2017
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:40:24 +0200
Subject: staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 123c0aab0050cd0e07ce18e453389fbbb0a5a425 ]
There is a check on pmlmepriv before dereferencing it when
vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf however the previous call
to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data deferences pmlmepriv causing
a null pointer deference if it is null. Avoid this by also
calling rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data if the pointer is non-null.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1230262 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: 7b464c9fa5cc ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 4")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct m
void rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)
{
- rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv);
-
- if (pmlmepriv)
+ if (pmlmepriv) {
+ rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv);
vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf);
+ }
}
struct wlan_network *_rtw_alloc_network(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/staging-rtl8188eu-avoid-a-null-dereference-on-pmlmepriv.patch