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CVE-2024-56599 — wifi: ath10k: avoid NULL pointer error during sdio remove

Affected: Linux

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

wifi: ath10k: avoid NULL pointer error during sdio remove

When running 'rmmod ath10k', ath10k_sdio_remove() will free sdio workqueue by destroy_workqueue(). But if CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON is set to yes, kernel panic will happen: Call trace: destroy_workqueue+0x1c/0x258 ath10k_sdio_remove+0x84/0x94 sdio_bus_remove+0x50/0x16c device_release_driver_internal+0x188/0x25c device_driver_detach+0x20/0x2c

This is because during 'rmmod ath10k', ath10k_sdio_remove() will call ath10k_core_destroy() before destroy_workqueue(). wiphy_dev_release() will finally be called in ath10k_core_destroy(). This function will free struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev and all its members, including wiphy, dev and the pointer of sdio workqueue. Then the pointer of sdio workqueue will be set to NULL due to CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.

After device release, destroy_workqueue() will use NULL pointer then the kernel panic happen.

Call trace: ath10k_sdio_remove ->ath10k_core_unregister …… ->ath10k_core_stop ->ath10k_hif_stop ->ath10k_sdio_irq_disable ->ath10k_hif_power_down ->del_timer_sync(&ar_sdio->sleep_timer) ->ath10k_core_destroy ->ath10k_mac_destroy ->ieee80211_free_hw ->wiphy_free …… ->wiphy_dev_release ->destroy_workqueue

Need to call destroy_workqueue() before ath10k_core_destroy(), free the work queue buffer first and then free pointer of…

USN-7379-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.11

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - ACPI drivers; - Drivers core; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Virtio block driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Microsoft Hyper-V drivers; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I3C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - IOMMU subsystem; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Microchip PCI driver; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - NVME drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PHY drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - i.MX PM domains; - Power supply drivers; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - i.MX SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - UFS subsystem; - USB Gadget drivers; - TDX Guest driver; - AFS file system; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - File systems infrastructure; - F2FS file system; - JFFS…