Re: patch "staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data()." added to staging-linus

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:42:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:48:41AM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org 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@insomniasec.com>
> > 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@oracle.com>
> 
> 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.

Sorry about that, the commit message was confusing :(