linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-57992: wifi: wilc1000: unregister wiphy only if it has been registered

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Message-ID: <2025022639-CVE-2024-57992-fa9c@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:05:51 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-57992: wifi: wilc1000: unregister wiphy only if it has been registered

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

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

wifi: wilc1000: unregister wiphy only if it has been registered

There is a specific error path in probe functions in wilc drivers (both
sdio and spi) which can lead to kernel panic, as this one for example
when using SPI:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 9f000000 when read
[9f000000] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM
Modules linked in: wilc1000_spi(+) crc_itu_t crc7 wilc1000 cfg80211 bluetooth ecdh_generic ecc
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 106 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3+ #22
Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
PC is at wiphy_unregister+0x244/0xc40 [cfg80211]
LR is at wiphy_unregister+0x1c0/0xc40 [cfg80211]
[...]
 wiphy_unregister [cfg80211] from wilc_netdev_cleanup+0x380/0x494 [wilc1000]
 wilc_netdev_cleanup [wilc1000] from wilc_bus_probe+0x360/0x834 [wilc1000_spi]
 wilc_bus_probe [wilc1000_spi] from spi_probe+0x15c/0x1d4
 spi_probe from really_probe+0x270/0xb2c
 really_probe from __driver_probe_device+0x1dc/0x4e8
 __driver_probe_device from driver_probe_device+0x5c/0x140
 driver_probe_device from __driver_attach+0x220/0x540
 __driver_attach from bus_for_each_dev+0x13c/0x1a8
 bus_for_each_dev from bus_add_driver+0x2a0/0x6a4
 bus_add_driver from driver_register+0x27c/0x51c
 driver_register from do_one_initcall+0xf8/0x564
 do_one_initcall from do_init_module+0x2e4/0x82c
 do_init_module from load_module+0x59a0/0x70c4
 load_module from init_module_from_file+0x100/0x148
 init_module_from_file from sys_finit_module+0x2fc/0x924
 sys_finit_module from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c

The issue can easily be reproduced, for example by not wiring correctly
a wilc device through SPI (and so, make it unresponsive to early SPI
commands). It is due to a recent change decoupling wiphy allocation from
wiphy registration, however wilc_netdev_cleanup has not been updated
accordingly, letting it possibly call wiphy unregister on a wiphy which
has never been registered.

Fix this crash by moving wiphy_unregister/wiphy_free out of
wilc_netdev_cleanup, and by adjusting error paths in both drivers

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-57992 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit fbdf0c5248dce4b55181e9aff8f1b61819ba6bd7 and fixed in 6.13.2 with commit c7115b8229f3e6cdfae43b1cdd180f5b6c67cd70
	Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit fbdf0c5248dce4b55181e9aff8f1b61819ba6bd7 and fixed in 6.14-rc1 with commit 1be94490b6b8a06ff14cd23fda8714e6ec37cdfb

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-2024-57992
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/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c
	drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/sdio.c
	drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/spi.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/c7115b8229f3e6cdfae43b1cdd180f5b6c67cd70
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be94490b6b8a06ff14cd23fda8714e6ec37cdfb