On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:48:41AM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data(). > > to my staging git tree which can be found at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git > in the staging-linus branch. > > The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree > (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) > > The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the > next -rc kernel release. > > If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. > > > >From 920c92448839bd4f8eb87a92b08cad56d449caff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Murray McAllister <murray.mcallister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 13:07:28 +1200 > Subject: staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data(). > > Dan Carpenter reported an integer underflow issue in the rtl8188eu driver. > This is also needed for the length (signed integer) in rtl8723bs, as it is > later converted to an unsigned integer and used in a memcpy operation. > > Original issue is at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9796371/ > > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Greg, you gave me Reported-by credit for this but really Murray found it on his own. It was slightly confusing perhaps from the commit message. regards, dan carpenter
