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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: fix potential NULL dereference and use after free
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:54:06 +0000 (UTC)
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Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
        Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
To: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
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Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com> wrote:

> There are two defects: (1) passing a NULL bss to
> mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels will result in NULL dereference,
> (2) using bss after dropping the reference to it via cfg80211_put_bss.
> To fix them, the patch moves the buggy code to the branch that bss is
> not NULL and puts it before cfg80211_put_bss.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

1dcd9429212b mwifiex: fix potential NULL dereference and use after free

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10704311/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches