A wiphy_work can be queued from the moment the wiphy is allocated and initialized (i.e. wiphy_new_nm). When a wiphy_work is queued, the rdev::wiphy_work is getting queued. If wiphy_free is called before the rdev::wiphy_work had a chance to run, the wiphy memory will be freed, and then when it eventally gets to run it'll use invalid memory. Fix this by canceling the work before freeing the wiphy. Fixes: a3ee4dc84c4e ("wifi: cfg80211: add a work abstraction with special semantics") Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/core.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 12b780de8779..828e29872633 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -1191,6 +1191,13 @@ void cfg80211_dev_free(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev) { struct cfg80211_internal_bss *scan, *tmp; struct cfg80211_beacon_registration *reg, *treg; + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&rdev->wiphy_work_lock, flags); + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&rdev->wiphy_work_list)); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rdev->wiphy_work_lock, flags); + cancel_work_sync(&rdev->wiphy_work); + rfkill_destroy(rdev->wiphy.rfkill); list_for_each_entry_safe(reg, treg, &rdev->beacon_registrations, list) { list_del(®->list); -- 2.34.1