This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: rtl8192e: Fix possible buffer overflow in

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.

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From: Lee Gibson leegib@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:51:57 +0000 Subject: staging: rtl8192e: Fix possible buffer overflow in _rtl92e_wx_set_scan

Function _rtl92e_wx_set_scan calls memcpy without checking the length. A user could control that length and trigger a buffer overflow. Fix by checking the length is within the maximum allowed size.

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lee Gibson leegib@gmail.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210226145157.424065-1-leegib@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c index 16bcee13f64b..407effde5e71 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c @@ -406,9 +406,10 @@ static int _rtl92e_wx_set_scan(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_scan_req *req = (struct iw_scan_req *)b;

if (req->essid_len) { - ieee->current_network.ssid_len = req->essid_len; - memcpy(ieee->current_network.ssid, req->essid, - req->essid_len); + int len = min_t(int, req->essid_len, IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE); + + ieee->current_network.ssid_len = len; + memcpy(ieee->current_network.ssid, req->essid, len); } }