Re: [PATCH v1] staging: rtl8712: prevent buffer overrun in recvbuf2recvframe

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On 05/23/2015 03:13 PM, Haggai Eran wrote:
With an RTL8191SU USB adaptor, sometimes the hints for a fragmented
packet are set, but the packet length is too large. Allocate enough
space to prevent memory corruption and a resulting kernel panic [1].

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg136546.html

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggai.eran@xxxxxxxxx>

ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Larry

---
Hi Larry,

I've updated the patch to avoid truncating the packets. I'm keeping the minimal
buffer of 1658 bytes in case some other device does rely on this
defragmentation feature.

Regards,
Haggai

  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
index cd8b444..5542243 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,8 @@ static int recvbuf2recvframe(struct _adapter *padapter, struct sk_buff *pskb)
  		/* for first fragment packet, driver need allocate 1536 +
  		 * drvinfo_sz + RXDESC_SIZE to defrag packet. */
  		if ((mf == 1) && (frag == 0))
-			alloc_sz = 1658;/*1658+6=1664, 1664 is 128 alignment.*/
+			/*1658+6=1664, 1664 is 128 alignment.*/
+			alloc_sz = max_t(u16, tmp_len, 1658);
  		else
  			alloc_sz = tmp_len;
  		/* 2 is for IP header 4 bytes alignment in QoS packet case.


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