staging: rtl8712: prevent buffer overrun in recvbuf2recvframe
authorHaggai Eran <haggai.eran@gmail.com>
Sat, 23 May 2015 20:13:51 +0000 (23:13 +0300)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:33:13 +0000 (16:33 +0200)
commite1dc2efaf4bd779f8119c4ec36effe1d21c8ee3b
tree451e61a1781fe8c9aa3ca42024bda92cde12e010
parent3d0b261c65b60df9dde561616217f93f8e411bdb
staging: rtl8712: prevent buffer overrun in recvbuf2recvframe

commit cab462140f8a183e3cca0b51c8b59ef715cb6148 upstream.

With an RTL8191SU USB adaptor, sometimes the hints for a fragmented
packet are set, but the packet length is too large. Allocate enough
space to prevent memory corruption and a resulting kernel panic [1].

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg136546.html

Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggai.eran@gmail.com>
ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c