patch "staging: rtl8192e: fix potential use after free" added to staging-testing

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: rtl8192e: fix potential use after free

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-testing 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 be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


From b7aa39a2ed0112d07fc277ebd24a08a7b2368ab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:49:11 +0800
Subject: staging: rtl8192e: fix potential use after free

The variable skb is released via kfree_skb() when the return value of
_rtl92e_tx is not zero. However, after that, skb is accessed again to
read its length, which may result in a use after free bug. This patch
fixes the bug by moving the release operation to where skb is never
used later.

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1572965351-6745-1-git-send-email-bianpan2016@163.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
index b08712a9c029..dace81a7d1ba 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
@@ -1616,14 +1616,15 @@ static void _rtl92e_hard_data_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev));
 	skb_push(skb, priv->rtllib->tx_headroom);
 	ret = _rtl92e_tx(dev, skb);
-	if (ret != 0)
-		kfree_skb(skb);
 
 	if (queue_index != MGNT_QUEUE) {
 		priv->rtllib->stats.tx_bytes += (skb->len -
 						 priv->rtllib->tx_headroom);
 		priv->rtllib->stats.tx_packets++;
 	}
+
+	if (ret != 0)
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 }
 
 static int _rtl92e_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
-- 
2.23.0