On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:10:27AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2021 11:02:47 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:48:59AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Hello! I would like to request for backporting following ath9k commits
> > > which are fixing CVE-2020-3702 issue.
> > >
> > > 56c5485c9e44 ("ath: Use safer key clearing with key cache entries")
> > > 73488cb2fa3b ("ath9k: Clear key cache explicitly on disabling hardware")
> > > d2d3e36498dd ("ath: Export ath_hw_keysetmac()")
> > > 144cd24dbc36 ("ath: Modify ath_key_delete() to not need full key entry")
> > > ca2848022c12 ("ath9k: Postpone key cache entry deletion for TXQ frames reference it")
> > >
> > > See also:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/87o8hvlx5g.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > >
> > > This CVE-2020-3702 issue affects ath9k driver in stable kernel versions.
> > > And due to this issue Qualcomm suggests to not use open source ath9k
> > > driver and instead to use their proprietary driver which do not have
> > > this issue.
> > >
> > > Details about CVE-2020-3702 are described on the ESET blog post:
> > > https://www.welivesecurity.com/2020/08/06/beyond-kr00k-even-more-wifi-chips-vulnerable-eavesdropping/
> > >
> > > Two months ago ESET tested above mentioned commits applied on top of
> > > 4.14 stable tree and confirmed that issue cannot be reproduced anymore
> > > with those patches. Commits were applied cleanly on top of 4.14 stable
> > > tree without need to do any modification.
> >
> > What stable tree(s) do you want to see these go into?
>
> Commits were introduced in 5.12, so it should go to all stable trees << 5.12
>
> > And what order are the above commits to be applied in, top-to-bottom or
> > bottom-to-top?
>
> Same order in which were applied in 5.12. So first commit to apply is
> 56c5485c9e44, then 73488cb2fa3b and so on... (from top of the email to
> the bottom of email).
Great, all now queued up. Sad that qcom didn't want to do this
themselves :(
greg k-h
