linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49523: ath11k: disable spectral scan during spectral deinit

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Message-ID: <2025022611-CVE-2022-49523-51ef@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:13:17 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49523: ath11k: disable spectral scan during spectral deinit

Description
===========

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

ath11k: disable spectral scan during spectral deinit

When ath11k modules are removed using rmmod with spectral scan enabled,
crash is observed. Different crash trace is observed for each crash.

Send spectral scan disable WMI command to firmware before cleaning
the spectral dbring in the spectral_deinit API to avoid this crash.

call trace from one of the crash observed:
[ 1252.880802] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
[ 1252.882722] pgd = 0f42e886
[ 1252.890955] [00000008] *pgd=00000000
[ 1252.893478] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[ 1253.093035] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.89 #0
[ 1253.115261] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[ 1253.121149] PC is at ath11k_spectral_process_data+0x434/0x574 [ath11k]
[ 1253.125940] LR is at 0x88e31017
[ 1253.132448] pc : [<7f9387b8>]    lr : [<88e31017>]    psr: a0000193
[ 1253.135488] sp : 80d01bc8  ip : 00000001  fp : 970e0000
[ 1253.141737] r10: 88e31000  r9 : 970ec000  r8 : 00000080
[ 1253.146946] r7 : 94734040  r6 : a0000113  r5 : 00000057  r4 : 00000000
[ 1253.152159] r3 : e18cb694  r2 : 00000217  r1 : 1df1f000  r0 : 00000001
[ 1253.158755] Flags: NzCv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
[ 1253.165266] Control: 10c0383d  Table: 5e71006a  DAC: 00000055
[ 1253.172472] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, stack limit = 0x60870141)
[ 1253.458055] [<7f9387b8>] (ath11k_spectral_process_data [ath11k]) from [<7f917fdc>] (ath11k_dbring_buffer_release_event+0x214/0x2e4 [ath11k])
[ 1253.466139] [<7f917fdc>] (ath11k_dbring_buffer_release_event [ath11k]) from [<7f8ea3c4>] (ath11k_wmi_tlv_op_rx+0x1840/0x29cc [ath11k])
[ 1253.478807] [<7f8ea3c4>] (ath11k_wmi_tlv_op_rx [ath11k]) from [<7f8fe868>] (ath11k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x180/0x4e0 [ath11k])
[ 1253.490699] [<7f8fe868>] (ath11k_htc_rx_completion_handler [ath11k]) from [<7f91308c>] (ath11k_ce_per_engine_service+0x2c4/0x3b4 [ath11k])
[ 1253.502386] [<7f91308c>] (ath11k_ce_per_engine_service [ath11k]) from [<7f9a4198>] (ath11k_pci_ce_tasklet+0x28/0x80 [ath11k_pci])
[ 1253.514811] [<7f9a4198>] (ath11k_pci_ce_tasklet [ath11k_pci]) from [<8032227c>] (tasklet_action_common.constprop.2+0x64/0xe8)
[ 1253.526476] [<8032227c>] (tasklet_action_common.constprop.2) from [<803021e8>] (__do_softirq+0x130/0x2d0)
[ 1253.537756] [<803021e8>] (__do_softirq) from [<80322610>] (irq_exit+0xcc/0xe8)
[ 1253.547304] [<80322610>] (irq_exit) from [<8036a4a4>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x60/0xb4)
[ 1253.554428] [<8036a4a4>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<805eb348>] (gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x90)
[ 1253.562321] [<805eb348>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<80301a78>] (__irq_svc+0x58/0x8c)

Tested-on: QCN6122 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.6.0.1-00851-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49523 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.10.121 with commit 60afa4f4e1350c876d8a061182a70c224de275dd
	Fixed in 5.15.46 with commit 451b9076903a057b7b8d5b24dc84b3e436a1c743
	Fixed in 5.17.14 with commit 4b9c54caef58d2b55074710952cda70540722c01
	Fixed in 5.18.3 with commit 8f15e67af9bec5a69e815e0230a70cffddae371a
	Fixed in 5.19 with commit 161c64de239c7018e0295e7e0520a19f00aa32dc

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49523
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/spectral.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60afa4f4e1350c876d8a061182a70c224de275dd
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/451b9076903a057b7b8d5b24dc84b3e436a1c743
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b9c54caef58d2b55074710952cda70540722c01
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f15e67af9bec5a69e815e0230a70cffddae371a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/161c64de239c7018e0295e7e0520a19f00aa32dc