linux-kernel - Re: rtlwifi: rtl8192c_common: "BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds"

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:45:31 -0600
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rtlwifi: rtl8192c_common: "BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds"

On 02/06/2017 04:29 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-02-04 at 12:41 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 02/04/2017 10:58 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> Seems the problem is caused by rtl92c_dm_*() casting .priv to
>>> "struct
>>> rtl_pci_priv", while it is "struct rtl_usb_priv".
>>
>> Those routines are shared by rtl8192ce and rtl8192cu, thus we need to
>> make that
>> difference in cast to be immaterial. I think we need to move "struct
>> bt_coexist_info" to the beginning of both rtlpci_priv and
>> rtl_usb_priv. Then it
>> should not matter.
>
> I think you really should consider putting a struct rtl_common into
> that or something, and getting rid of all the casting that causes this
> problem to start with?

The fix you suggest is prepared and will be submitted soon. As it is much more 
invasive with ~150 insertions and ~160 deletions, I decided not to have it be 
the one that is pushed to all stable kernels from 4.0 onward.

Larry