Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix ie_length bound check in rtw_cfg80211_inform_bss

[Adi Prasan]

Hi Greg,

I ran smatch over drivers/staging and it flagged this
function - the check here allows ie_length up to ~976 bytes (1000
minus the 24-byte header), but network.ies[] is only MAX_IE_SZ (768)
bytes, so the memcpy() a few lines down can read past the end of
that array.

I went and checked every place that sets ie_length before it reaches
here - collect_bss_info() in rtw_mlme_ext.c, and the two
H2C_PARAMETERS_ERROR checks nearby - and all of them already clamp it
to MAX_IE_SZ. So this isn't reachable through any current caller, it
was just the local check not matching the actual buffer size. Wanted
to fix it directly rather than rely on every caller continuing to
enforce that cap.

For testing I have build-tested with make M=drivers/staging/rtl8723bs, clean
checkpatch. I don't have the actual hardware to test at runtime, and
since this only tightens a bound that's already unreachable in
practice, there's no behavior change for any existing valid input.

Thanks,
Adi