This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8712: unterminated string leads to read overflow
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 3c0992038070465b5362fd401e41d3f85a2512a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:45:59 +0300
Subject: staging: rtl8712: unterminated string leads to read overflow
The memdup_user() function does not necessarily return a NUL terminated
string so this can lead to a read overflow. Switch from memdup_user()
to strndup_user() to fix this bug.
Fixes: c6dc001f2add ("staging: r8712u: Merging Realtek's latest (v2.6.6). Various fixes.")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YDYSR+1rj26NRhvb@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index 81de5a9e6b67..60dd798a6e51 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static int r871x_wx_set_priv(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_point *dwrq = (struct iw_point *)awrq;
len = dwrq->length;
- ext = memdup_user(dwrq->pointer, len);
+ ext = strndup_user(dwrq->pointer, len);
if (IS_ERR(ext))
return PTR_ERR(ext);
--
2.30.1
