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

Tobias Guggenmos
2017-02-07T16:53:19Z

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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

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