wifi: mac80211: reserve chanctx during find

When searching for a chanctx for re-use, it's later adjusted and
assigned. It may also be that another one is already assigned to
the link in question, so unassign can also happen. In short, the
driver is called multiple times. During these callbacks, it may
thus change active links (on another interface), which then can
in turn cause the found chanctx (that's going to be reused) to
get removed and freed.

To avoid this, temporarily assign it to the reserved chanctx and
track the link that wants to use it in the reserved_links list.
This causes the ieee80211_chanctx_refcount() to be increased by
one during these operations, thus avoiding the free.

Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240418115219.94ea84c8ee1e.I0b247dbc0cd937ae6367bc0fc7e8d156b5d5f9b1@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/chan.c b/net/mac80211/chan.c
index 5a7fb0e4f89d..6d0148dea126 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/chan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/chan.c
@@ -547,8 +547,10 @@ static void ieee80211_change_chanctx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 	_ieee80211_change_chanctx(local, ctx, old_ctx, chanreq, NULL);
 }
 
+/* Note: if successful, the returned chanctx is reserved for the link */
 static struct ieee80211_chanctx *
 ieee80211_find_chanctx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+		       struct ieee80211_link_data *link,
 		       const struct ieee80211_chan_req *chanreq,
 		       enum ieee80211_chanctx_mode mode)
 {
@@ -560,6 +562,9 @@ ieee80211_find_chanctx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 	if (mode == IEEE80211_CHANCTX_EXCLUSIVE)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(link->reserved_chanctx))
+		return NULL;
+
 	list_for_each_entry(ctx, &local->chanctx_list, list) {
 		const struct ieee80211_chan_req *compat;
 
@@ -578,6 +583,16 @@ ieee80211_find_chanctx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 		if (!compat)
 			continue;
 
+		/*
+		 * Reserve the chanctx temporarily, as the driver might change
+		 * active links during callbacks we make into it below and/or
+		 * later during assignment, which could (otherwise) cause the
+		 * context to actually be removed.
+		 */
+		link->reserved_chanctx = ctx;
+		list_add(&link->reserved_chanctx_list,
+			 &ctx->reserved_links);
+
 		ieee80211_change_chanctx(local, ctx, ctx, compat);
 
 		return ctx;
@@ -1701,6 +1716,7 @@ int ieee80211_link_use_channel(struct ieee80211_link_data *link,
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
 	struct ieee80211_chanctx *ctx;
 	u8 radar_detect_width = 0;
+	bool reserved = false;
 	int ret;
 
 	lockdep_assert_wiphy(local->hw.wiphy);
@@ -1727,8 +1743,11 @@ int ieee80211_link_use_channel(struct ieee80211_link_data *link,
 
 	__ieee80211_link_release_channel(link, false);
 
-	ctx = ieee80211_find_chanctx(local, chanreq, mode);
-	if (!ctx)
+	ctx = ieee80211_find_chanctx(local, link, chanreq, mode);
+	/* Note: context is now reserved */
+	if (ctx)
+		reserved = true;
+	else
 		ctx = ieee80211_new_chanctx(local, chanreq, mode);
 	if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(ctx);
@@ -1738,6 +1757,14 @@ int ieee80211_link_use_channel(struct ieee80211_link_data *link,
 	ieee80211_link_update_chanreq(link, chanreq);
 
 	ret = ieee80211_assign_link_chanctx(link, ctx);
+
+	if (reserved) {
+		/* remove reservation */
+		WARN_ON(link->reserved_chanctx != ctx);
+		link->reserved_chanctx = NULL;
+		list_del(&link->reserved_chanctx_list);
+	}
+
 	if (ret) {
 		/* if assign fails refcount stays the same */
 		if (ieee80211_chanctx_refcount(local, ctx) == 0)