This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: fix locking in ieee80211_start_ap error path to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mac80211-fix-locking-in-ieee80211_start_ap-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 87a270625a89fc841f1a7e21aae6176543d8385c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:22:40 +0100 Subject: mac80211: fix locking in ieee80211_start_ap error path From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 87a270625a89fc841f1a7e21aae6176543d8385c upstream. We need to hold the local->mtx to release the channel context, as even encoded by the lockdep_assert_held() there. Fix it. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 295b02c4be74 ("mac80211: Add FILS discovery support") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+11c342e5e30e9539cabd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220090836.cee3d59a1915.I36bba9b79dc2ff4d57c3c7aa30dff9a003fe8c5c@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -1226,7 +1226,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wip return 0; error: + mutex_lock(&local->mtx); ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata); + mutex_unlock(&local->mtx); + return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/mac80211-fix-locking-in-ieee80211_start_ap-error-path.patch