linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49131: ath11k: fix kernel panic during unload/load ath11k modules

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Message-ID: <2025022605-CVE-2022-49131-584c@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:55:36 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49131: ath11k: fix kernel panic during unload/load ath11k modules

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

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

ath11k: fix kernel panic during unload/load ath11k modules

Call netif_napi_del() from ath11k_ahb_free_ext_irq() to fix
the following kernel panic when unload/load ath11k modules
for few iterations.

[  971.201365] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6d97a208
[  971.204227] pgd = 594c2919
[  971.211478] [6d97a208] *pgd=00000000
[  971.214120] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[  971.412024] CPU: 2 PID: 4435 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.4.89 #0
[  971.434256] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[  971.440165] PC is at napi_by_id+0x10/0x40
[  971.445019] LR is at netif_napi_add+0x160/0x1dc

[  971.743127] (napi_by_id) from [<807d89a0>] (netif_napi_add+0x160/0x1dc)
[  971.751295] (netif_napi_add) from [<7f1209ac>] (ath11k_ahb_config_irq+0xf8/0x414 [ath11k_ahb])
[  971.759164] (ath11k_ahb_config_irq [ath11k_ahb]) from [<7f12135c>] (ath11k_ahb_probe+0x40c/0x51c [ath11k_ahb])
[  971.768567] (ath11k_ahb_probe [ath11k_ahb]) from [<80666864>] (platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x94)
[  971.779670] (platform_drv_probe) from [<80664718>] (really_probe+0x1c8/0x450)
[  971.789389] (really_probe) from [<80664cc4>] (driver_probe_device+0x15c/0x1b8)
[  971.797547] (driver_probe_device) from [<80664f60>] (device_driver_attach+0x44/0x60)
[  971.805795] (device_driver_attach) from [<806650a0>] (__driver_attach+0x124/0x140)
[  971.814822] (__driver_attach) from [<80662adc>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x58/0xa4)
[  971.823328] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<80663a2c>] (bus_add_driver+0xf0/0x1e8)
[  971.831662] (bus_add_driver) from [<806658a4>] (driver_register+0xa8/0xf0)
[  971.839822] (driver_register) from [<8030269c>] (do_one_initcall+0x78/0x1ac)
[  971.847638] (do_one_initcall) from [<80392524>] (do_init_module+0x54/0x200)
[  971.855968] (do_init_module) from [<803945b0>] (load_module+0x1e30/0x1ffc)
[  971.864126] (load_module) from [<803948b0>] (sys_init_module+0x134/0x17c)
[  971.871852] (sys_init_module) from [<80301000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x50)

Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.6.0.1-00760-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49131 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.10.111 with commit c6a815f5abdf324108799829dd19ea62fef4bf95
	Fixed in 5.15.34 with commit c4b7653af62a9a5efe2856183d1f987c5429758b
	Fixed in 5.16.20 with commit 699e8c87e5c406af0f0606f40eeebd248c51b702
	Fixed in 5.17.3 with commit 38e488db194dc16d2eb23c77c6a8c04ff583c40d
	Fixed in 5.18 with commit 22b59cb965f79ee1accf83172441c9ca0ecb632a

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-2022-49131
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/ahb.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/c6a815f5abdf324108799829dd19ea62fef4bf95
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4b7653af62a9a5efe2856183d1f987c5429758b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/699e8c87e5c406af0f0606f40eeebd248c51b702
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38e488db194dc16d2eb23c77c6a8c04ff583c40d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22b59cb965f79ee1accf83172441c9ca0ecb632a