kernel/linux.git/net/wireless/core.c, branch v5.10.257

wifi: cfg80211: cancel rfkill_block work in wiphy_unregister()

2026-04-18T08:30:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 767d23ade706d5fa51c36168e92a9c5533c351a1 ] There is a use-after-free error in cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces found by syzkaller: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x213/0x220 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888112a78d98 by task kworker/0:5/5326 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5326 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc2 #2 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events cfg80211_rfkill_block_work Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 print_report+0xcd/0x630 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x213/0x220 cfg80211_rfkill_block_work+0x1e/0x30 process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 ret_from_fork+0x56d/0x700 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 The problem arises due to the rfkill_block work is not cancelled when wiphy is being unregistered. In order to fix the issue cancel the corresponding work in wiphy_unregister(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. Fixes: 1f87f7d3a3b4 ("cfg80211: add rfkill support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniil Dulov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260211082024.1967588-1-d.dulov@aladdin.ru Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg [ Context ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: cfg80211: stop NAN and P2P in cfg80211_leave

2026-03-04T12:19:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit e1696c8bd0056bc1a5f7766f58ac333adc203e8a ] Seems that there is an assumption that this function should be called only for netdev interfaces, but it can also be called in suspend, or from nl80211_netlink_notify (indirectly). Note that the documentation of NL80211_ATTR_SOCKET_OWNER explicitly says that NAN interfaces would be destroyed as well in the nl80211_netlink_notify case. Fix this by also stopping P2P and NAN. Fixes: cb3b7d87652a ("cfg80211: add start / stop NAN commands") Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107140430.dab142cbef0b.I290cc47836d56dd7e35012ce06bec36c6da688cd@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

cfg80211: set custom regdomain after wiphy registration

2022-06-06T06:42:41+00:00

commit 1b7b3ac8ff3317cdcf07a1c413de9bdb68019c2b upstream. We used to set regulatory info before the registration of the device and then the regulatory info didn't get set, because the device isn't registered so there isn't a device to set the regulatory info for. So set the regulatory info after the device registration. Call reg_process_self_managed_hints() once again after the device registration because it does nothing before it. Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20210618133832.c96eadcffe80.I86799c2c866b5610b4cf91115c21d8ceb525c5aa@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: fix management registrations locking

2021-11-02T18:48:20+00:00

commit 09b1d5dc6ce1c9151777f6c4e128a59457704c97 upstream. The management registrations locking was broken, the list was locked for each wdev, but cfg80211_mgmt_registrations_update() iterated it without holding all the correct spinlocks, causing list corruption. Rather than trying to fix it with fine-grained locking, just move the lock to the wiphy/rdev (still need the list on each wdev), we already need to hold the wdev lock to change it, so there's no contention on the lock in any case. This trivially fixes the bug since we hold one wdev's lock already, and now will hold the lock that protects all lists. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Jouni Malinen Fixes: 6cd536fe62ef ("cfg80211: change internal management frame registration API") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025133111.5cf733eab0f4.I7b0abb0494ab712f74e2efcd24bb31ac33f7eee9@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: initialize wdev data earlier

2020-10-30T09:03:59+00:00

There's a race condition in the netdev registration in that NETDEV_REGISTER actually happens after the netdev is available, and so if we initialize things only there, we might get called with an uninitialized wdev through nl80211 - not using a wdev but using a netdev interface index. I found this while looking into a syzbot report, but it doesn't really seem to be related, and unfortunately there's no repro for it (yet). I can't (yet) explain how it managed to get into cfg80211_release_pmsr() from nl80211_netlink_notify() without the wdev having been initialized, as the latter only iterates the wdevs that are linked into the rdev, which even without the change here happened after init. However, looking at this, it seems fairly clear that the init needs to be done earlier, otherwise we might even re-init on a netns move, when data might still be pending. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009135821.fdcbba3aad65.Ie9201d91dbcb7da32318812effdc1561aeaf4cdc@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

nl80211/cfg80211: support 6 GHz scanning

2020-09-28T11:53:04+00:00

Support 6 GHz scanning, by * a new scan flag to scan for colocated BSSes advertised by (and found) APs on 2.4 & 5 GHz * doing the necessary reduced neighbor report parsing for this, to find them * adding the ability to split the scan request in case the device by itself cannot support this. Also add some necessary bits in mac80211 to not break with these changes. Signed-off-by: Tova Mussai Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918113313.232917c93af9.Ida22f0212f9122f47094d81659e879a50434a6a2@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

2020-08-07T18:33:22+00:00

As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nl80211: S1G band and channel definitions

2020-07-31T07:24:13+00:00

Gives drivers the definitions needed to advertise support for S1G bands. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200602062247.23212-1-thomas@adapt-ip.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731055636.795173-1-thomas@adapt-ip.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211: fix management registrations deadlock

2020-06-05T07:22:00+00:00

Lockdep reports that we may deadlock because we take the RTNL on the work struct, but flush it under RTNL. Clearly, it's correct. In practice, this can happen when doing rfkill on an active device. Fix this by moving the work struct to the wiphy (registered dev) layer, and iterate over all the wdevs inside there. This then means we need to track which one of them has work to do, so we don't update to the driver for all wdevs all the time. Also fix a locking bug I noticed while working on this - the registrations list is iterated as if it was an RCU list, but it isn't handle that way - and we need to lock now for the update flag anyway, so remove the RCU. Fixes: 6cd536fe62ef ("cfg80211: change internal management frame registration API") Reported-by: Markus Theil Reported-and-tested-by: Kenneth R. Crudup Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200604120420.b1dc540a7e26.I55dcca56bb5bdc5d7ad66a36a0b42afd7034d8be@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2020-06-01T00:48:46+00:00

xdp_umem.c had overlapping changes between the 64-bit math fix for the calculation of npgs and the removal of the zerocopy memory type which got rid of the chunk_size_nohdr member. The mlx5 Kconfig conflict is a case where we just take the net-next copy of the Kconfig entry dependency as it takes on the ESWITCH dependency by one level of indirection which is what the 'net' conflicting change is trying to ensure. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller