From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>,
Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: fix potential NULL dereference and use after free
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:54:06 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213145407.1DF896071A@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1543487119-92033-1-git-send-email-bianpan2016@163.com>
Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com> wrote:
> There are two defects: (1) passing a NULL bss to
> mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels will result in NULL dereference,
> (2) using bss after dropping the reference to it via cfg80211_put_bss.
> To fix them, the patch moves the buggy code to the branch that bss is
> not NULL and puts it before cfg80211_put_bss.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
1dcd9429212b mwifiex: fix potential NULL dereference and use after free
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10704311/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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2018-11-29 10:25 [PATCH] mwifiex: fix potential NULL dereference and use after free Pan Bian
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