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Gokul Sivakumar dbc7357b6a 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 15:36:37 -05:00
arch arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c 2025-11-02 22:18:04 +09:00
block block: require LBA dma_alignment when using PI 2025-10-29 14:10:28 +01:00
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 16:37:14 +02:00
Documentation x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for VMSCAPE 2025-11-02 22:18:03 +09:00
drivers wifi: brcmfmac: fix crash while sending Action Frames in standalone AP Mode 2025-11-13 15:36:37 -05:00
fs Revert "NFSD: Remove the cap on number of operations per NFSv4 COMPOUND" 2025-11-13 15:36:36 -05:00
include fbcon: Set fb_display[i]->mode to NULL when the mode is released 2025-11-13 15:36:36 -05:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:37:27 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: correct __must_hold annotation in io_install_fixed_file 2025-10-29 14:10:28 +01:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel sched_ext: Mark scx_bpf_dsq_move_set_[slice|vtime]() with KF_RCU 2025-11-13 15:36:36 -05:00
lib lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm treewide: remove MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS 2025-10-29 14:10:32 +01:00
net Bluetooth: rfcomm: fix modem control handling 2025-11-13 15:36:37 -05:00
rust rust: device: fix device context of Device::parent() 2025-10-29 14:10:22 +01:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
sound ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
tools sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive 2025-11-02 22:18:04 +09:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.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 MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.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: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17.7 2025-11-02 22:18:05 +09:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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