This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mwifiex: add mutex lock for call in mwifiex_dfs_chan_sw_work_queue to the 5.17-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: mwifiex-add-mutex-lock-for-call-in-mwifiex_dfs_chan_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9726ae8591a0efe08c36161f3eae4112edb5b665 Author: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 21 23:55:16 2022 +0100 mwifiex: add mutex lock for call in mwifiex_dfs_chan_sw_work_queue [ Upstream commit 3e12968f6d12a34b540c39cbd696a760cc4616f0 ] cfg80211_ch_switch_notify uses ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK to assert that net_device->ieee80211_ptr->mtx (which is the same as priv->wdev.mtx) is held during the function's execution. mwifiex_dfs_chan_sw_work_queue is one of its callers, which does not hold that lock, therefore violating the assertion. Add a lock around the call. Disclaimer: I am currently working on a static analyser to detect missing locks. This was a reported case. I manually verified the report by looking at the code, so that I do not send wrong information or patches. After concluding that this seems to be a true positive, I created this patch. However, as I do not in fact have this particular hardware, I was unable to test it. Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220321225515.32113-1-dossche.niels@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11h.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11h.c index d2ee6469e67b..3fa25cd64cda 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11h.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11h.c @@ -303,5 +303,7 @@ void mwifiex_dfs_chan_sw_work_queue(struct work_struct *work) mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, MSG, "indicating channel switch completion to kernel\n"); + mutex_lock(&priv->wdev.mtx); cfg80211_ch_switch_notify(priv->netdev, &priv->dfs_chandef); + mutex_unlock(&priv->wdev.mtx); }