No description
  • C 96.8%
  • Assembly 0.9%
  • Rust 0.7%
  • Shell 0.6%
  • Python 0.5%
  • Other 0.3%
Find a file
Gokul Sivakumar a6eed58249 wifi: brcmfmac: fix crash while sending Action Frames in standalone AP Mode
commit 3776c685eb upstream.

Currently, whenever there is a need to transmit an Action frame,
the brcmfmac driver always uses the P2P vif to send the "actframe" IOVAR to
firmware. The P2P interfaces were available when wpa_supplicant is managing
the wlan interface.

However, the P2P interfaces are not created/initialized when only hostapd
is managing the wlan interface. And if hostapd receives an ANQP Query REQ
Action frame even from an un-associated STA, the brcmfmac driver tries
to use an uninitialized P2P vif pointer for sending the IOVAR to firmware.
This NULL pointer dereferencing triggers a driver crash.

 [ 1417.074538] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
 address 0000000000000000
 [...]
 [ 1417.075188] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (DT)
 [...]
 [ 1417.075653] Call trace:
 [ 1417.075662]  brcmf_p2p_send_action_frame+0x23c/0xc58 [brcmfmac]
 [ 1417.075738]  brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx+0x304/0x5c0 [brcmfmac]
 [ 1417.075810]  cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx+0x1b0/0x428 [cfg80211]
 [ 1417.076067]  nl80211_tx_mgmt+0x238/0x388 [cfg80211]
 [ 1417.076281]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe0/0x158
 [ 1417.076302]  genl_rcv_msg+0x220/0x2a0
 [ 1417.076317]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x68/0x140
 [ 1417.076330]  genl_rcv+0x40/0x60
 [ 1417.076343]  netlink_unicast+0x330/0x3b8
 [ 1417.076357]  netlink_sendmsg+0x19c/0x3f8
 [ 1417.076370]  __sock_sendmsg+0x64/0xc0
 [ 1417.076391]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x268/0x2a0
 [ 1417.076408]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xb8/0x118
 [ 1417.076427]  __sys_sendmsg+0x90/0xf8
 [ 1417.076445]  __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x2c/0x40
 [ 1417.076465]  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
 [ 1417.076486]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
 [ 1417.076506]  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
 [ 1417.076525]  el0_svc+0x30/0x100
 [ 1417.076548]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130
 [ 1417.076569]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
 [ 1417.076589] Code: f9401e80 aa1603e2 f9403be1 5280e483 (f9400000)

Fix this, by always using the vif corresponding to the wdev on which the
Action frame Transmission request was initiated by the userspace. This way,
even if P2P vif is not available, the IOVAR is sent to firmware on AP vif
and the ANQP Query RESP Action frame is transmitted without crashing the
driver.

Move init_completion() for "send_af_done" from brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev()
to brcmf_p2p_attach(). Because the former function would not get executed
when only hostapd is managing wlan interface, and it is not safe to do
reinit_completion() later in brcmf_p2p_tx_action_frame(), without any prior
init_completion().

And in the brcmf_p2p_tx_action_frame() function, the condition check for
P2P Presence response frame is not needed, since the wpa_supplicant is
properly sending the P2P Presense Response frame on the P2P-GO vif instead
of the P2P-Device vif.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 18e2f61db3 ("brcmfmac: P2P action frame tx")
Signed-off-by: Gokul Sivakumar <gokulkumar.sivakumar@infineon.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013102819.9727-1-gokulkumar.sivakumar@infineon.com
[Cc stable]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-11-13 15:33:55 -05:00
arch arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c 2025-11-02 22:15:22 +09:00
block blk-crypto: fix missing blktrace bio split events 2025-10-19 16:33:48 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:33:42 +02:00
Documentation docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString() 2025-11-02 22:15:22 +09:00
drivers wifi: brcmfmac: fix crash while sending Action Frames in standalone AP Mode 2025-11-13 15:33:55 -05:00
fs NFSD: Fix crash in nfsd4_read_release() 2025-11-13 15:33:54 -05:00
include fbcon: Set fb_display[i]->mode to NULL when the mode is released 2025-11-13 15:33:55 -05:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:33:50 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: be smarter on when to update the stime usage 2025-10-29 14:08:59 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition 2025-11-02 22:15:21 +09:00
lib lib/crypto/curve25519-hacl64: Disable KASAN with clang-17 and older 2025-10-19 16:34:00 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: prevent poison consumption when splitting THP 2025-10-29 14:08:57 +01:00
net Bluetooth: rfcomm: fix modem control handling 2025-11-13 15:33:55 -05:00
rust mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise 2025-10-23 16:20:47 +02:00
samples ftrace/samples: Fix function size computation 2025-09-19 16:35:44 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-10-06 11:17:52 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:33:51 +02:00
sound ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails 2025-10-23 16:20:37 +02:00
tools selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported 2025-11-02 22:15:22 +09:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.57 2025-11-02 22:15:23 +09:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.