[PATCH 6.0 0714/1073] staging: rtl8192e: Fix potential use-after-free in rtllib_rx_Monitor()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-12-28T16:21:02Z

From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit d30f4436f364b4ad915ca2c09be07cd0f93ceb44 ]

The skb is delivered to netif_rx() in rtllib_monitor_rx(), which may free it,
after calling this, dereferencing skb may trigger use-after-free.
Found by Smatch.

Fixes: 94a799425eee ("From: wlanfae <wlanfae@realtek.com> [PATCH 1/8] rtl8192e: Import new version of driver from realtek")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123081253.22296-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c
index abe5c153f74e..b0ef9da43bc4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c
@@ -1489,9 +1489,9 @@ static int rtllib_rx_Monitor(struct rtllib_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb,
hdrlen += 4;
}

- rtllib_monitor_rx(ieee, skb, rx_stats, hdrlen);
ieee->stats.rx_packets++;
ieee->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
+ rtllib_monitor_rx(ieee, skb, rx_stats, hdrlen);

return 1;
}
--
2.35.1