• Zhi Chen's avatar
    ath10k: fix peer stats null pointer dereference · 2d3b5585
    Zhi Chen authored
    There was a race condition in SMP that an ath10k_peer was created but its
    member sta was null. Following are procedures of ath10k_peer creation and
    member sta access in peer statistics path.
    
        1. Peer creation:
            ath10k_peer_create()
                =>ath10k_wmi_peer_create()
                    =>ath10k_wait_for_peer_created()
                    ...
    
            # another kernel path, RX from firmware
            ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler()
            =>ath10k_peer_map_event()
                    =>wake_up()
                    # ar->peer_map[id] = peer //add peer to map
    
            #wake up original path from waiting
                    ...
                    # peer->sta = sta //sta assignment
    
        2.  RX path of statistics
            ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler()
                =>ath10k_update_per_peer_tx_stats()
                    =>ath10k_htt_fetch_peer_stats()
                    # peer->sta //sta accessing
    
    Any access of peer->sta after peer was added to peer_map but before sta was
    assigned could cause a null pointer issue. And because these two steps are
    asynchronous, no proper lock can protect them. So both peer and sta need to
    be checked before access.
    
    Tested: QCA9984 with firmware ver 10.4-3.9.0.1-00005
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhi Chen <zhichen@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
    2d3b5585
debugfs_sta.c 21.5 KB