linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 046/104] ath10k: prevent sta pointer rcu violation

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Message-Id: <20171006083847.496968476@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri,  6 Oct 2017 10:51:24 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 046/104] ath10k: prevent sta pointer rcu violation

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h |    1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c  |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

--- 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);
--- 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_loo
 	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
 	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
 	.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)