From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: murray.mcallister@insomniasec.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch "staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data()." added to staging-linus
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:51:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180703105123.GA28307@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180703104247.z3kx735llnpct6fk@mwanda>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:42:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:48:41AM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data().
> >
> > to my staging git tree which can be found at
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
> > in the staging-linus branch.
> >
> > The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
> > (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
> >
> > The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
> > next -rc kernel release.
> >
> > If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
> >
> >
> > >From 920c92448839bd4f8eb87a92b08cad56d449caff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Murray McAllister <murray.mcallister@insomniasec.com>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 13:07:28 +1200
> > Subject: staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data().
> >
> > Dan Carpenter reported an integer underflow issue in the rtl8188eu driver.
> > This is also needed for the length (signed integer) in rtl8723bs, as it is
> > later converted to an unsigned integer and used in a memcpy operation.
> >
> > Original issue is at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9796371/
> >
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> Greg, you gave me Reported-by credit for this but really Murray found it
> on his own. It was slightly confusing perhaps from the commit message.
Sorry about that, the commit message was confusing :(
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2018-07-02 8:48 patch "staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data()." added to staging-linus gregkh
2018-07-03 10:42 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-07-03 10:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
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