Re: rtlwifi: rtl8192c_common: "BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds"

[Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>]

On 07.02.2017 19:45, Tobias Guggenmos wrote:
> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2017, 09:45:31 CET schrieb Larry Finger:
>> On 02/06/2017 04:29 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2017-02-04 at 12:41 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>> On 02/04/2017 10:58 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>> Seems the problem is caused by rtl92c_dm_*() casting .priv to
>>>>> "struct
>>>>> rtl_pci_priv", while it is "struct rtl_usb_priv".
>>>>
>>>> Those routines are shared by rtl8192ce and rtl8192cu, thus we need to
>>>> make that
>>>> difference in cast to be immaterial. I think we need to move "struct
>>>> bt_coexist_info" to the beginning of both rtlpci_priv and
>>>> rtl_usb_priv. Then it
>>>> should not matter.
>>>
>>> I think you really should consider putting a struct rtl_common into
>>> that or something, and getting rid of all the casting that causes this
>>> problem to start with?
>>
>> The fix you suggest is prepared and will be submitted soon. As it is much
>> more invasive with ~150 insertions and ~160 deletions, I decided not to
>> have it be the one that is pushed to all stable kernels from 4.0 onward.
>>
>> Larry
> 
> This is possibly related to the following Fedora Bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1391987
> 

Bug only affects USB adapters (8192cu), PCIe (8192ce) should be fine. The Fedora
bug sounds like the one I have with the enabled AP QoS.

-- 
Dmitry