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Linus Lüssing 3bbd0000d0 mac80211: fix potential double free on mesh join
commit 4a2d4496e15ea5bb5c8e83b94ca8ca7fb045e7d3 upstream.

While commit 6a01afcf8468 ("mac80211: mesh: Free ie data when leaving
mesh") fixed a memory leak on mesh leave / teardown it introduced a
potential memory corruption caused by a double free when rejoining the
mesh:

  ieee80211_leave_mesh()
  -> kfree(sdata->u.mesh.ie);
  ...
  ieee80211_join_mesh()
  -> copy_mesh_setup()
     -> old_ie = ifmsh->ie;
     -> kfree(old_ie);

This double free / kernel panics can be reproduced by using wpa_supplicant
with an encrypted mesh (if set up without encryption via "iw" then
ifmsh->ie is always NULL, which avoids this issue). And then calling:

  $ iw dev mesh0 mesh leave
  $ iw dev mesh0 mesh join my-mesh

Note that typically these commands are not used / working when using
wpa_supplicant. And it seems that wpa_supplicant or wpa_cli are going
through a NETDEV_DOWN/NETDEV_UP cycle between a mesh leave and mesh join
where the NETDEV_UP resets the mesh.ie to NULL via a memcpy of
default_mesh_setup in cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call, which then avoids
the memory corruption, too.

The issue was first observed in an application which was not using
wpa_supplicant but "Senf" instead, which implements its own calls to
nl80211.

Fixing the issue by removing the kfree()'ing of the mesh IE in the mesh
join function and leaving it solely up to the mesh leave to free the
mesh IE.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6a01afcf8468 ("mac80211: mesh: Free ie data when leaving mesh")
Reported-by: Matthias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fit.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <ll@simonwunderlich.de>
Tested-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fit.fraunhofer.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310183513.28589-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-28 08:46:48 +02:00
arch ACPI / x86: Work around broken XSDT on Advantech DAC-BJ01 board 2022-03-28 08:46:47 +02:00
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Documentation x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper 2022-03-11 11:22:37 +01:00
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lib ARM: 9178/1: fix unmet dependency on BITREVERSE for HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE 2022-03-19 13:40:16 +01:00
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mm memfd: fix F_SEAL_WRITE after shmem huge page allocated 2022-03-08 19:07:49 +01:00
net mac80211: fix potential double free on mesh join 2022-03-28 08:46:48 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix failing to generate auto.conf 2022-02-23 12:00:01 +01:00
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sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for ASUS GA402 2022-03-28 08:46:46 +02:00
tools Revert "selftests/bpf: Add test for bpf_timer overwriting crash" 2022-03-23 09:12:08 +01:00
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