> This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference in mt76 that occurs when a
> status work like mt76u_tx_status_data() queued from mt76u_status_worker()
> is called in worker thread while the device initialization failed.
> Pointers dereferenced in the work that should have been initialized
> during the device registration in mt76_register_device(),
> 'dev->mphy.chandef.chan' in mt76x02_mac_fill_tx_status(), for example,
> may be NULL if the initialization failed. The patch adds a check that
> safely terminates the function if that is the case.
>
> Found by a modified version of syzkaller.
>
> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
> CPU: 0 PID: 98 Comm: kworker/u2:2 Not tainted 5.14.0+ #78
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> Workqueue: mt76 mt76u_tx_status_data
> RIP: 0010:mt76x02_mac_fill_tx_status.isra.0+0x82c/0x9e0
> Code: c5 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 94 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 34 24 4c 89 f2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 89 01 00 00 41 8b 16 41 0f b7
> RSP: 0018:ffffc900005af988 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc900005afae8 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff832fc661 RDI: ffffc900005afc2a
> RBP: ffffc900005afae0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff520000b5f3c
> R10: 0000000000000003 R11: fffff520000b5f3b R12: ffff88810b6132d8
> R13: 000000000000ffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc900005afc28
> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00007fa0eda6a000 CR3: 0000000118f17000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
> PKRU: 55555554
> Call Trace:
> ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x125/0x2e0
> ? mt76x02_mac_write_txwi+0xdc0/0xdc0
> ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
> ? __dev_printk+0x1d6/0x1fe
> mt76x02_send_tx_status+0x1d2/0xeb0
> ? usleep_range+0xb3/0x170
> ? mt76x02_mac_load_tx_status+0x4b0/0x4b0
> ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0
> ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
> ? mt76u_rr+0x3c/0x50
> mt76x02_tx_status_data+0x8e/0xd0
> ? mt76x02_tx_set_txpwr_auto+0x330/0x330
> mt76u_tx_status_data+0xe1/0x240
> ? mt76u_read_copy_ext+0x180/0x180
> ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x81/0xd0
> ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
> ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0
> process_one_work+0x92b/0x1460
> ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x330/0x330
> ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
> worker_thread+0x95/0xe00
> ? __kthread_parkme+0x115/0x1e0
> ? process_one_work+0x1460/0x1460
> kthread+0x3a1/0x480
> ? set_kthread_struct+0x120/0x120
> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> Modules linked in:
> ---[ end trace 8df5d20fc5040f65 ]---
> RIP: 0010:mt76x02_mac_fill_tx_status.isra.0+0x82c/0x9e0
> Code: c5 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 94 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 34 24 4c 89 f2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 89 01 00 00 41 8b 16 41 0f b7
> RSP: 0018:ffffc900005af988 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc900005afae8 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff832fc661 RDI: ffffc900005afc2a
> RBP: ffffc900005afae0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff520000b5f3c
> R10: 0000000000000003 R11: fffff520000b5f3b R12: ffff88810b6132d8
> R13: 000000000000ffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc900005afc28
> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00007fa0eda6a000 CR3: 0000000118f17000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
> PKRU: 55555554
>
> Reported-by: Dokyung Song <dokyungs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Jisoo Jang <jisoo.jang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Minsuk Kang <linuxlovemin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minsuk Kang <linuxlovemin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> The crash we found occurs when the initialization failed in
> mt76x0u_register_device() and mt76u_stop_tx() is called via
> mt76u_queues_deinit() as an error handling. mt76u_stop_tx()
> enables a kthread with mt76_worker_enable() and this
> make 'dev->mphy.chandef.chan', which is NULL, be dereferenced
> in mt76x02_mac_fill_tx_status(), called in the worker.
>
> I think that calling mt76_worker_enable() in mt76u_stop_tx()
> may be a fundamental problem in this crash. What I found
> is that mt76u_stop_tx() is invoked twice by mt76x0u_stop()
> and mt76x0u_cleanup() from mt76x0_disconnect() when
> disconnecting the device. In this situation, enabling
> kthreads in mt76u_stop_tx() after disabling them will prevents
> them from being repeatedly parked, which will return -EBUSY.
>
> If invoking mt76u_stop_tx() in both mt76x0u_stop() and
> mt76x0u_cleanup() is unnecessary, and preventing kthreads
> from being continuously parked is the only reason of
> mt76_worker_enable() in mt76u_stop_tx(), I think we can
> make a solution that fundamentally prevent the work from
> being called when initialization is failed, instead of
> checking the state after the work is called.
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/sdio.c | 3 ++-
> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/usb.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/sdio.c
> index 0ec308f99af5..464d1c713554 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/sdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/sdio.c
> @@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ static void mt76s_tx_status_data(struct work_struct *work)
> dev = container_of(sdio, struct mt76_dev, sdio);
>
> while (true) {
> - if (test_bit(MT76_REMOVED, &dev->phy.state))
> + if (test_bit(MT76_REMOVED, &dev->phy.state) ||
> + !test_bit(MT76_STATE_INITIALIZED, &dev->phy.state))
> break;
>
> if (!dev->drv->tx_status_data(dev, &update))
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/usb.c
> index 4c4033bb1bb3..6cfdaa9d09d1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/usb.c
> @@ -803,7 +803,8 @@ static void mt76u_tx_status_data(struct work_struct *work)
> dev = container_of(usb, struct mt76_dev, usb);
>
> while (true) {
> - if (test_bit(MT76_REMOVED, &dev->phy.state))
> + if (test_bit(MT76_REMOVED, &dev->phy.state) ||
> + !test_bit(MT76_STATE_INITIALIZED, &dev->phy.state))
> break;
>
> if (!dev->drv->tx_status_data(dev, &update))
Hi,
I have already posted a fix for this issue:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/42b98060e60849f4e3116a725004a6396cef08c1.1665687951.git.lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx/
Regards,
Lorenzo
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> 2.25.1
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