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Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
To: meatuni001@gmail.com,gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:42:21 +0200
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The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 28a289beaf226b30b1e6e7d7b1a2946fe2d6e852
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026090821-violator-overshoot-41ea@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 28a289beaf226b30b1e6e7d7b1a2946fe2d6e852 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:54:56 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie()

rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() scans in_ie for a WMM IE with:

	while (i < in_len) {
		...
		if (i + 5 < in_len && in_ie[i] == 0xDD && ...) {
			...
			break;
		}
		i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2); /* to the next IE element */
	}

When the "i + 5 < in_len" match check fails simply because i is
within 5 bytes of the end of the buffer (i.e. no WMM IE was found
near the tail of in_ie), execution falls through to
"i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2)", which reads in_ie[i + 1]. If i == in_len
- 1 at that point, this is a 1-byte out-of-bounds read of an
attacker-influenced IE buffer built from association/scan data.

Commit a75281626fc8f ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential
out-of-bounds read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie") added the "i + 5 <
in_len" guard to the match condition itself, but did not add an
equivalent guard before the fallthrough advance, so the same class
of OOB read remained reachable through the non-matching path.

Add an explicit bounds check before advancing to the next IE.

Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260728125456.32359-4-meatuni001@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
index fc46b33b836a..d18768a51b19 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
@@ -1975,6 +1975,9 @@ int rtw_restruct_wmm_ie(struct adapter *adapter, u8 *in_ie, u8 *out_ie, uint in_
 			break;
 		}
 
+		if (i + 1 >= in_len)
+			break;
+
 		i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2); /*  to the next IE element */
 	}