staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
In routine wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is checked to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but the code does not detect the case where p->length is greater than the size of the struct, thus a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory. Fixes commit 554c0a3a ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver"). Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com> Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 554c0a3a ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver"). Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-5-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.netSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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