This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ath10k: fix null deref on wmi-tlv when trying spectral scan
to the 4.4-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:
ath10k-fix-null-deref-on-wmi-tlv-when-trying-spectral-scan.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 18ae68fff392e445af3c2d8be9bef8a16e1c72a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:25:23 +0100
Subject: ath10k: fix null deref on wmi-tlv when trying spectral scan
From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 18ae68fff392e445af3c2d8be9bef8a16e1c72a7 upstream.
WMI ops wrappers did not properly check for null
function pointers for spectral scan. This caused
null dereference crash with WMI-TLV based firmware
which doesn't implement spectral scan.
The crash could be triggered with:
ip link set dev wlan0 up
echo background > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath10k/spectral_scan_ctl
The crash looked like this:
[ 168.031989] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 168.037406] IP: [< (null)>] (null)
[ 168.040395] PGD cdd4067 PUD fa0f067 PMD 0
[ 168.043303] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
[ 168.045377] Modules linked in: ath10k_pci(O) ath10k_core(O) ath mac80211 cfg80211 [last unloaded: cfg80211]
[ 168.051560] CPU: 1 PID: 1380 Comm: bash Tainted: G W O 4.8.0 #78
[ 168.054336] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[ 168.059183] task: ffff88000c460c00 task.stack: ffff88000d4bc000
[ 168.061736] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null)
...
[ 168.100620] Call Trace:
[ 168.101910] [<ffffffffa03b9566>] ? ath10k_spectral_scan_config+0x96/0x200 [ath10k_core]
[ 168.104871] [<ffffffff811386e2>] ? filemap_fault+0xb2/0x4a0
[ 168.106696] [<ffffffffa03b97e6>] write_file_spec_scan_ctl+0x116/0x280 [ath10k_core]
[ 168.109618] [<ffffffff812da3a1>] full_proxy_write+0x51/0x80
[ 168.111443] [<ffffffff811957b8>] __vfs_write+0x28/0x120
[ 168.113090] [<ffffffff812f1a2d>] ? security_file_permission+0x3d/0xc0
[ 168.114932] [<ffffffff8109b912>] ? percpu_down_read+0x12/0x60
[ 168.116680] [<ffffffff811965f8>] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0
[ 168.118293] [<ffffffff81197966>] SyS_write+0x46/0xa0
[ 168.119912] [<ffffffff818f2972>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
[ 168.121737] Code: Bad RIP value.
[ 168.123318] RIP [< (null)>] (null)
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-ops.h | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-ops.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-ops.h
@@ -639,6 +639,9 @@ ath10k_wmi_vdev_spectral_conf(struct ath
struct sk_buff *skb;
u32 cmd_id;
+ if (!ar->wmi.ops->gen_vdev_spectral_conf)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
skb = ar->wmi.ops->gen_vdev_spectral_conf(ar, arg);
if (IS_ERR(skb))
return PTR_ERR(skb);
@@ -654,6 +657,9 @@ ath10k_wmi_vdev_spectral_enable(struct a
struct sk_buff *skb;
u32 cmd_id;
+ if (!ar->wmi.ops->gen_vdev_spectral_enable)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
skb = ar->wmi.ops->gen_vdev_spectral_enable(ar, vdev_id, trigger,
enable);
if (IS_ERR(skb))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ath10k-fix-null-deref-on-wmi-tlv-when-trying-spectral-scan.patch