linux-kernel - [PATCH] [RFC] mwifiex: Fix NULL pointer deref

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Message-Id: <20240619070824.537856-1-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:08:24 +0200
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Lin <yu-hao.lin@....com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
	Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] mwifiex: Fix NULL pointer deref

When an Access Point is repeatedly started it happens that the
interrupts handler is called with priv->wdev.wiphy being NULL, but
dereferenced in mwifiex_parse_single_response_buf() resulting in:

| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000140
| Mem abort info:
|   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
|   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
|   SET = 0, FnV = 0
|   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
|   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
| Data abort info:
|   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
|   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
|   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000046d96000
| [0000000000000140] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| Modules linked in: caam_jr caamhash_desc spidev caamalg_desc crypto_engine authenc libdes mwifiex_sdio mwifiex crct10dif_ce cdc_acm onboard_usb_hub fsl_imx8_ddr_perf imx8m_ddrc rtc_ds1307 lm75 rtc_snvs imx_sdma caam imx8mm_thermal spi_imx error imx_cpufreq_dt fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6
| CPU: 0 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-00007-g937242013fce-dirty #18
| Hardware name: somemachine (DT)
| Workqueue: events sdio_irq_work
| pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : mwifiex_get_cfp+0xd8/0x15c [mwifiex]
| lr : mwifiex_get_cfp+0x34/0x15c [mwifiex]
| sp : ffff8000818b3a70
| x29: ffff8000818b3a70 x28: ffff000006bfd8a5 x27: 0000000000000004
| x26: 000000000000002c x25: 0000000000001511 x24: 0000000002e86bc9
| x23: ffff000006bfd996 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: ffff000007bec000
| x20: 000000000000002c x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
| x17: 000000040044ffff x16: 00500072b5503510 x15: ccc283740681e517
| x14: 0201000101006d15 x13: 0000000002e8ff43 x12: 002c01000000ffb1
| x11: 0100000000000000 x10: 02e8ff43002c0100 x9 : 0000ffb100100157
| x8 : ffff000003d20000 x7 : 00000000000002f1 x6 : 00000000ffffe124
| x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000003 x3 : 0000000000000000
| x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0001000000011001 x0 : 0000000000000000
| Call trace:
|  mwifiex_get_cfp+0xd8/0x15c [mwifiex]
|  mwifiex_parse_single_response_buf+0x1d0/0x504 [mwifiex]
|  mwifiex_handle_event_ext_scan_report+0x19c/0x2f8 [mwifiex]
|  mwifiex_process_sta_event+0x298/0xf0c [mwifiex]
|  mwifiex_process_event+0x110/0x238 [mwifiex]
|  mwifiex_main_process+0x428/0xa44 [mwifiex]
|  mwifiex_sdio_interrupt+0x64/0x12c [mwifiex_sdio]
|  process_sdio_pending_irqs+0x64/0x1b8
|  sdio_irq_work+0x4c/0x7c
|  process_one_work+0x148/0x2a0
|  worker_thread+0x2fc/0x40c
|  kthread+0x110/0x114
|  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| Code: a94153f3 a8c37bfd d50323bf d65f03c0 (f940a000)
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fix this by adding a NULL check before dereferencing this pointer.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>

---

This is the most obvious fix for this problem, but I am not sure if we
might want to catch priv->wdev.wiphy being NULL earlier in the call
chain.
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
index 0326b121747cb..6211ae97da4b2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
@@ -1843,6 +1843,9 @@ mwifiex_parse_single_response_buf(struct mwifiex_private *priv, u8 **bss_info,
 			return 0;
 		}
 
+		if (!priv->wdev.wiphy)
+			return 0;
+
 		band = BAND_G;
 		if (radio_type)
 			band = mwifiex_radio_type_to_band(*radio_type &
-- 
2.39.2