mwifiex: Fix memory corruption in dump_station
The mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_station() uses static variable for iterating over a linked list of all associated stations (when the driver is in UAP role). This has a race condition if .dump_station is called in parallel for multiple interfaces. This corruption can be triggered by registering multiple SSIDs and calling, in parallel for multiple interfaces iw dev <iface> station dump [16750.719775] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dead000000000110 ... [16750.899173] Call trace: [16750.901696] mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_station+0x94/0x100 [mwifiex] [16750.907824] nl80211_dump_station+0xbc/0x278 [cfg80211] [16750.913160] netlink_dump+0xe8/0x320 [16750.916827] netlink_recvmsg+0x1b4/0x338 [16750.920861] ____sys_recvmsg+0x7c/0x2b0 [16750.924801] ___sys_recvmsg+0x70/0x98 [16750.928564] __sys_recvmsg+0x58/0xa0 [16750.932238] __arm64_sys_recvmsg+0x28/0x30 [16750.936453] el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0x90/0x158 [16750.941378] do_el0_svc+0x74/0x90 [16750.944784] el0_sync_handler+0x12c/0x1a8 [16750.948903] el0_sync+0x114/0x140 [16750.952312] Code: f9400003 f907f423 eb02007f 54fffd60 (b9401060) [16750.958583] ---[ end trace c8ad181c2f4b8576 ]--- This patch drops the use of the static iterator, and instead every time the function is called iterates to the idx-th position of the linked-list. It would be better to convert the code not to use linked list for associated stations storage (since the chip has a limited number of associated stations anyway - it could just be an array). Such a change may be proposed in the future. In the meantime this patch can backported into stable kernels in this simple form. Fixes: 8baca1a3 ("mwifiex: dump station support in uap mode") Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515075924.13841-1-pali@kernel.org
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