Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mwifiex: bring down link before deleting interface

We can deadlock when rmmod'ing the driver or going through firmware reset, because the cfg80211_unregister_wdev() has to bring down the link for us, ... which then grab the same wiphy lock.

nl80211_del_interface() already handles a very similar case, with a nice description:

/* * We hold RTNL, so this is safe, without RTNL opencount cannot * reach 0, and thus the rdev cannot be deleted. * * We need to do it for the dev_close(), since that will call * the netdev notifiers, and we need to acquire the mutex there * but don't know if we get there from here or from some other * place (e.g. "ip link set ... down"). */ mutex_unlock(&rdev->wiphy.mtx); ...

Do similarly for mwifiex teardown, by ensuring we bring the link down first.

Sample deadlock trace:

[ 247.103516] INFO: task rmmod:2119 blocked for more than 123 seconds. [ 247.110630] Not tainted 5.12.4 #5 [ 247.115796] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 247.124557] task:rmmod state:D stack: 0 pid: 2119 ppid: 2114 flags:0x00400208 [ 247.133905] Call trace: [ 247.136644] __switch_to+0x130/0x170 [ 247.140643] __schedule+0x714/0xa0c [ 247.144548] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x88/0xf4 [ 247.149714] __mutex_lock_common+0x43c/0x750 [ 247.154496] mutex_lo…