Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 008/187] mwifiex: fix possible heap overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie()

Sasha Levin
2020-01-09T15:29:28Z

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:51:28PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 9:59 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 3d94a4a8373bf5f45cf5f939e88b8354dbf2311b ]
>
>FYI, this upstream commit has unbalanced locking. I've submitted a
>followup here:
>
>[PATCH] mwifiex: fix unbalanced locking in mwifiex_process_country_ie()
>https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20200106224212.189763-1-briannorris@chromium.org/T/#u
>https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11320227/
>
>I'd recommend holding off until that gets landed somewhere. (Same for
>the AUTOSEL patches sent to other kernel branches.)

I'll drop it for now, just ping us when the fix is in and we'll get both
patches queued back up.

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Thanks,
Sasha