FAILED: patch "[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

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 <[email protected]>.

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 '<[email protected]>' --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 <[email protected]>
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.

index fc46b33b836a..d18768a51b19 100644
@@ -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 */
 	}
 

From: Vivek BalachandharTN <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2038fe84b8bdf894b634f777096685e78e8f3774 ]

Fix several instances where operators lacked spaces around them. This improves readability and brings the driver closer to kernel coding-style guidelines. No functional change.

For this stable dependency, retain only the spacing change to the IE advance in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie(). This supplies the exact context needed by target commit 28a289beaf226 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie()"). Drop the unrelated operator-spacing hunks.

Keep the existing bounds-first WMM match condition from stable commit 4dd2d9cf563c5 (upstream a75281626fc8f); applying the older condition would undo its out-of-bounds-read fix. No functional change.

Stable-dep-of: 28a289beaf22 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie()")

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index d4b6e748f11fc..8f91484743a63 100644
@@ -1950,7 +1950,7 @@ int rtw_restruct_wmm_ie(struct adapter *adapter, u8 *in_ie, u8 *out_ie, uint in_
 			break;
 		}
 
-		i += (in_ie[i+1]+2); /*  to the next IE element */
+		i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2); /*  to the next IE element */
 	}
 
 	return ielength;

2.53.0

From: Muhammad Bilal <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 28a289beaf226b30b1e6e7d7b1a2946fe2d6e852 ]

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.

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

index 8f91484743a63..506ba55f15b78 100644
@@ -1950,6 +1950,9 @@ 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 */
 	}
 

2.53.0