[PATCH 6.18 48/49] wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-13T13:54:24Z

From: Ali Tariq <alitariq45892@gmail.com>

commit 86c946bcc00f6390ef65e9614ae60a9377e454f8 upstream.

The driver does not set hw->sta_data_size, which causes mac80211 to
allocate insufficient space for driver private station data in
__sta_info_alloc(). When rtl8xxxu_sta_add() accesses members of
struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info through sta->drv_priv, this results in a
slab-out-of-bounds write.

KASAN report on RISC-V (VisionFive 2) with RTL8192EU adapter:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add+0x31c/0x346
Write of size 8 at addr ffffffd6d3e9ae88 by task kworker/u16:0/12

Set hw->sta_data_size to sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info) during
probe, similar to how hw->vif_data_size is configured. This ensures
mac80211 allocates sufficient space for the driver's per-station
private data.

Tested on StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.2A board.

Fixes: eef55f1545c9 ("wifi: rtl8xxxu: support multiple interfaces in {add,remove}_interface()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Tariq <alitariq45892@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251225115430.13011-1-alitariq45892@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c
@@ -7927,6 +7927,7 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_probe(struct usb_int
goto err_set_intfdata;

hw->vif_data_size = sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_vif);
+ hw->sta_data_size = sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info);

hw->wiphy->max_scan_ssids = 1;
hw->wiphy->max_scan_ie_len = IEEE80211_MAX_DATA_LEN;