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Date:   Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:37:33 +0800
From:   Solomon Tan <wjsota@...il.com>
To:     straube.linux@...il.com, paskripkin@...il.com
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] staging: r8188eu: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in
 rtw_cmd_thread

> > > It looks like
> > > commit 0afaa121813e ("staging: r8188eu: use in-kernel ieee channel")
> > > intoduced a. See KASAN output below.
> > > 
> > > That commit replaced the use of struct rtw_ieee80211_channel with struct
> > > ieee80211_channel.
> > > 
> > > There are several calls to memcpy that used sizeof(struct
> > > rtw_ieee80211_channel)
> > > and now use sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel) but the sizes of these two
> > > structures are not equal.
> > > 
> 
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c:276: memcpy() call.
> 
> As Michael said the sizes of structures do not mach and the memcpy writes
> below allocated buffer.
> 
Thanks Pavel.

Hi Michael, I could not find the cause of this issue, and I am afraid I
might break even more stuff if I attempt to fix it, so I have submitted
a new patch to revert my changes. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers,
Solomon

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