linux-kernel - [PATCH for 4.9 48/59] ath10k: prevent sta pointer rcu violation

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Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:51:18 +0000
From:   "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>,
        "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH for 4.9 48/59] ath10k: prevent sta pointer rcu violation

From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>

[ Upstream commit 0a744d927406389e00687560d9ce3c5ab0e58db9 ]

Station pointers are RCU protected so driver must
be extra careful if it tries to store them
internally for later use outside of the RCU
section it obtained it in.

It was possible for station teardown to race with
some htt events. The possible outcome could be a
use-after-free and a crash.

Only peer-flow-control capable firmware was
affected (so hardware-wise qca99x0 and qca4019).

This could be done in sta_state() itself via
explicit synchronize_net() call but there's
already a convenient sta_pre_rcu_remove() op that
can be hooked up to avoid extra rcu stall.

The peer->sta pointer itself can't be set to
NULL/ERR_PTR because it is later used in
sta_state() for extra sanity checks.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c  | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
index be5b527472f9..90c0c4a7175d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ struct ath10k_peer {
 	struct ieee80211_vif *vif;
 	struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
 
+	bool removed;
 	int vdev_id;
 	u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(peer_ids, ATH10K_MAX_NUM_PEER_IDS);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index f2e85eb22afe..30e98afa2e68 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -3738,6 +3738,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq *ath10k_mac_txq_lookup(struct ath10k *ar,
 	if (!peer)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (peer->removed)
+		return NULL;
+
 	if (peer->sta)
 		return peer->sta->txq[tid];
 	else if (peer->vif)
@@ -7422,6 +7425,20 @@ ath10k_mac_op_switch_vif_chanctx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void ath10k_mac_op_sta_pre_rcu_remove(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+					     struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
+					     struct ieee80211_sta *sta)
+{
+	struct ath10k *ar;
+	struct ath10k_peer *peer;
+
+	ar = hw->priv;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(peer, &ar->peers, list)
+		if (peer->sta == sta)
+			peer->removed = true;
+}
+
 static const struct ieee80211_ops ath10k_ops = {
 	.tx				= ath10k_mac_op_tx,
 	.wake_tx_queue			= ath10k_mac_op_wake_tx_queue,
@@ -7462,6 +7479,7 @@ static const struct ieee80211_ops ath10k_ops = {
 	.assign_vif_chanctx		= ath10k_mac_op_assign_vif_chanctx,
 	.unassign_vif_chanctx		= ath10k_mac_op_unassign_vif_chanctx,
 	.switch_vif_chanctx		= ath10k_mac_op_switch_vif_chanctx,
+	.sta_pre_rcu_remove		= ath10k_mac_op_sta_pre_rcu_remove,
 
 	CFG80211_TESTMODE_CMD(ath10k_tm_cmd)
 
-- 
2.11.0