This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: cfg80211: fix RCU dereference in __cfg80211_bss_update 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: wifi-cfg80211-fix-rcu-dereference-in-__cfg80211_bss_.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. commit e2e01a7e9a021bf6a9450cbe7b6a9b78c3a19f77 Author: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 3 20:13:51 2024 +0800 wifi: cfg80211: fix RCU dereference in __cfg80211_bss_update [ Upstream commit 1184950e341c11b6f82bc5b59564411d9537ab27 ] Replace rcu_dereference() with rcu_access_pointer() since we hold the lock here (and aren't in an RCU critical section). Fixes: 32af9a9e1069 ("wifi: cfg80211: free beacon_ies when overridden from hidden BSS") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+864a269c27ee06b58374@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/tencent_BF8F0DF0258C8DBF124CDDE4DD8D992DCF07@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c index 68c48970ebf7..2898df10a72a 100644 --- a/net/wireless/scan.c +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c @@ -1809,7 +1809,7 @@ cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, &hidden->hidden_list); hidden->refcount++; - ies = (void *)rcu_dereference(new->pub.beacon_ies); + ies = (void *)rcu_access_pointer(new->pub.beacon_ies); rcu_assign_pointer(new->pub.beacon_ies, hidden->pub.beacon_ies); if (ies)