linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50880: wifi: ath10k: add peer map clean up for peer delete in ath10k_sta

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Message-ID: <2025123024-CVE-2022-50880-4c27@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:23:29 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50880: wifi: ath10k: add peer map clean up for peer delete in ath10k_sta_state()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

wifi: ath10k: add peer map clean up for peer delete in ath10k_sta_state()

When peer delete failed in a disconnect operation, use-after-free
detected by KFENCE in below log. It is because for each vdev_id and
address, it has only one struct ath10k_peer, it is allocated in
ath10k_peer_map_event(). When connected to an AP, it has more than
one HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_PEER_MAP reported from firmware, then the
array peer_map of struct ath10k will be set muti-elements to the
same ath10k_peer in ath10k_peer_map_event(). When peer delete failed
in ath10k_sta_state(), the ath10k_peer will be free for the 1st peer
id in array peer_map of struct ath10k, and then use-after-free happened
for the 2nd peer id because they map to the same ath10k_peer.

And clean up all peers in array peer_map for the ath10k_peer, then
user-after-free disappeared

peer map event log:
[  306.911021] wlan0: authenticate with b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e
[  306.957187] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac vdev 0 peer create b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e (new sta) sta 1 / 32 peer 1 / 33
[  306.957395] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer map vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 246
[  306.957404] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer map vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 198
[  306.986924] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer map vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 166

peer unmap event log:
[  435.715691] wlan0: deauthenticating from b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[  435.716802] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac vdev 0 peer delete b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e sta ffff990e0e9c2b50 (sta gone)
[  435.717177] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 246
[  435.717186] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 198
[  435.717193] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 166

use-after-free log:
[21705.888627] wlan0: deauthenticating from d0:76:8f:82:be:75 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[21713.799910] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to delete peer d0:76:8f:82:be:75 for vdev 0: -110
[21713.799925] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: found sta peer d0:76:8f:82:be:75 (ptr 0000000000000000 id 102) entry on vdev 0 after it was supposedly removed
[21713.799968] ==================================================================
[21713.799991] BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in ath10k_sta_state+0x265/0xb8a [ath10k_core]
[21713.799991]
[21713.799997] Use-after-free read at 0x00000000abe1c75e (in kfence-#69):
[21713.800010]  ath10k_sta_state+0x265/0xb8a [ath10k_core]
[21713.800041]  drv_sta_state+0x115/0x677 [mac80211]
[21713.800059]  __sta_info_destroy_part2+0xb1/0x133 [mac80211]
[21713.800076]  __sta_info_flush+0x11d/0x162 [mac80211]
[21713.800093]  ieee80211_set_disassoc+0x12d/0x2f4 [mac80211]
[21713.800110]  ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x26c/0x29b [mac80211]
[21713.800137]  cfg80211_mlme_deauth+0x13f/0x1bb [cfg80211]
[21713.800153]  nl80211_deauthenticate+0xf8/0x121 [cfg80211]
[21713.800161]  genl_rcv_msg+0x38e/0x3be
[21713.800166]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x89/0xf7
[21713.800171]  genl_rcv+0x28/0x36
[21713.800176]  netlink_unicast+0x179/0x24b
[21713.800181]  netlink_sendmsg+0x3a0/0x40e
[21713.800187]  sock_sendmsg+0x72/0x76
[21713.800192]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x1e3
[21713.800196]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x95/0xd1
[21713.800200]  __sys_sendmsg+0x85/0xbf
[21713.800205]  do_syscall_64+0x43/0x55
[21713.800210]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[21713.800213]
[21713.800219] kfence-#69: 0x000000009149b0d5-0x000000004c0697fb, size=1064, cache=kmalloc-2k
[21713.800219]
[21713.800224] allocated by task 13 on cpu 0 at 21705.501373s:
[21713.800241]  ath10k_peer_map_event+0x7e/0x154 [ath10k_core]
[21713.800254]  ath10k_htt_t2h_msg_handler+0x586/0x1039 [ath10k_core]
[21713.800265]  ath10k_htt_htc_t2h_msg_handler+0x12/0x28 [ath10k_core]
[21713.800277]  ath10k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x14c/0x1b5 [ath10k_core]
[21713.800283]  ath10k_pci_process_rx_cb+0x195/0x1df [ath10k_pci]
[21713.800294]  ath10k_ce_per_engine_service+0x55/0x74 [ath10k_core]
[21713.800305]  ath10k_ce_per_engine_service_any+0x76/0x84 [ath10k_core]
[21713.800310]  ath10k_pci_napi_poll+0x49/0x144 [ath10k_pci]
[21713.800316]  net_rx_action+0xdc/0x361
[21713.800320]  __do_softirq+0x163/0x29a
[21713.800325]  asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20
[21713.800331]  do_softirq_own_stack+0x3c/0x48
[21713.800337]  __irq_exit_rcu+0x9b/0x9d
[21713.800342]  common_interrupt+0xc9/0x14d
[21713.800346]  asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
[21713.800351]  ksoftirqd_should_run+0x5/0x16
[21713.800357]  smpboot_thread_fn+0x148/0x211
[21713.800362]  kthread+0x150/0x15f
[21713.800367]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[21713.800370]
[21713.800374] freed by task 708 on cpu 1 at 21713.799953s:
[21713.800498]  ath10k_sta_state+0x2c6/0xb8a [ath10k_core]
[21713.800515]  drv_sta_state+0x115/0x677 [mac80211]
[21713.800532]  __sta_info_destroy_part2+0xb1/0x133 [mac80211]
[21713.800548]  __sta_info_flush+0x11d/0x162 [mac80211]
[21713.800565]  ieee80211_set_disassoc+0x12d/0x2f4 [mac80211]
[21713.800581]  ieee80211_mgd_deauth+0x26c/0x29b [mac80211]
[21713.800598]  cfg80211_mlme_deauth+0x13f/0x1bb [cfg80211]
[21713.800614]  nl80211_deauthenticate+0xf8/0x121 [cfg80211]
[21713.800619]  genl_rcv_msg+0x38e/0x3be
[21713.800623]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x89/0xf7
[21713.800628]  genl_rcv+0x28/0x36
[21713.800632]  netlink_unicast+0x179/0x24b
[21713.800637]  netlink_sendmsg+0x3a0/0x40e
[21713.800642]  sock_sendmsg+0x72/0x76
[21713.800646]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x1e3
[21713.800651]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x95/0xd1
[21713.800655]  __sys_sendmsg+0x85/0xbf
[21713.800659]  do_syscall_64+0x43/0x55
[21713.800663]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00288-QCARMSWPZ-1

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50880 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 4.9.331 with commit 15604ab67179ae27ea3c7fb24b6df32b143257c4
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 4.14.296 with commit 2d6259715c9597a6cfa25db8911683eb0073b1c6
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 4.19.262 with commit f12fc305c127bd07bb50373e29c6037696f916a8
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 5.4.220 with commit 4494ec1c0bb850eaa80fed98e5b041d961011d3e
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 5.10.150 with commit 08faf07717be0c88b02b5aa45aad2225dfcdd2dc
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 5.15.75 with commit 54a3201f3c1ff813523937da78b5fa7649dbab71
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 5.19.17 with commit 2bf916418d2141b810c40812433ab4ecfd3c2934
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 6.0.3 with commit 38245f2d62cd4d1f38a763a7b4045ab4565b30a0
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit d0eeafad118940fe445ca00f45be5624fea2ec34 and fixed in 6.1 with commit f020d9570a04df0762a2ac5c50cf1d8c511c9164

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-2022-50880
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/ath10k/mac.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/15604ab67179ae27ea3c7fb24b6df32b143257c4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d6259715c9597a6cfa25db8911683eb0073b1c6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f12fc305c127bd07bb50373e29c6037696f916a8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4494ec1c0bb850eaa80fed98e5b041d961011d3e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08faf07717be0c88b02b5aa45aad2225dfcdd2dc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54a3201f3c1ff813523937da78b5fa7649dbab71
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bf916418d2141b810c40812433ab4ecfd3c2934
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38245f2d62cd4d1f38a763a7b4045ab4565b30a0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f020d9570a04df0762a2ac5c50cf1d8c511c9164