Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

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On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it.
> As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. 
> 

Please add this line:

"From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>"

> [ Upstream commit 21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8 ]
> 
> We check tid->sched without a lock taken on ath_tx_aggr_sleep(). That
> is race condition which can result of doing list_del(&tid->list) twice
> (second time with poisoned list node) and cause crash like shown below:
> 
> [424271.637220] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00100104
> [424271.637328] IP: [<f90fc072>] ath_tx_aggr_sleep+0x62/0xe0 [ath9k]
> ...
> [424271.639953] Call Trace:
> [424271.639998]  [<f90f6900>] ? ath9k_get_survey+0x110/0x110 [ath9k]
> [424271.640083]  [<f90f6942>] ath9k_sta_notify+0x42/0x50 [ath9k]
> [424271.640177]  [<f809cfef>] sta_ps_start+0x8f/0x1c0 [mac80211]
> [424271.640258]  [<c10f730e>] ? free_compound_page+0x2e/0x40
> [424271.640346]  [<f809e915>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x9d5/0x2340 [mac80211]
> [424271.640437]  [<c112f048>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1d8/0x1f0
> [424271.640510]  [<c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90
> [424271.640578]  [<c10fc23c>] ? put_page+0x2c/0x40
> [424271.640640]  [<c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90
> [424271.640706]  [<c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90
> [424271.640787]  [<f809dde3>] ? ieee80211_rx_handlers_result+0x73/0x1d0 [mac80211]
> [424271.640897]  [<f80a07a0>] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x520/0xad0 [mac80211]
> [424271.641009]  [<f809e22d>] ? ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x2ed/0x2340 [mac80211]
> [424271.641104]  [<c13846ce>] ? ip_output+0x7e/0xd0
> [424271.641182]  [<f80a1057>] ieee80211_rx+0x307/0x7c0 [mac80211]
> [424271.641266]  [<f90fa6ee>] ath_rx_tasklet+0x88e/0xf70 [ath9k]
> [424271.641358]  [<f80a0f2c>] ? ieee80211_rx+0x1dc/0x7c0 [mac80211]
> [424271.641445]  [<f90f82db>] ath9k_tasklet+0xcb/0x130 [ath9k]
> 
> Bug report:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Max Sydorenko <maxim.stargazer@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [ xl: backported to 3.10: adjusted context ]
> Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Lu <luxiangyu@xxxxxxxxxx>


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