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CVE-2024-40942

wifi: mac80211: mesh: Fix leak of mesh_preq_queue objects PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: mesh: Fix leak of mesh_preq_queue objects The hwmp code use objects of type mesh_preq_queue, added to a list in ieee80211_if_mesh, to keep track of mpath we need to resolve. If the mpath gets deleted, ex mesh interface is removed, the entries in that list will never get cleaned. Fix this by flushing all corresponding items of the preq_queue in mesh_path_flush_pending(). This should take care of KASAN reports like this: unreferenced object 0xffff00000668d800 (size 128): comm "kworker/u8:4", pid 67, jiffies 4295419552 (age 1836.444s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 1f 05 09 00 00 ff ff 00 d5 68 06 00 00 ff ff ..........h..... 8e 97 ea eb 3e b8 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....>........... backtrace: [<000000007302a0b6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e0/0x35c [<00000000049bd418>] kmalloc_trace+0x34/0x80 [<0000000000d792bb>] mesh_queue_preq+0x44/0x2a8 [<00000000c99c3696>] mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x198/0x19c [<00000000926bf598>] ieee80211_xmit+0x1d0/0x1f4 [<00000000fc8c2284>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x30c/0x764 [<000000005926ee38>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x9c/0x7a4 [<000000004c86e916>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x174/0x440 [<0000000023495647>] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x111c [<00000000cfe9ca78>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x180/0x1e4 [<000000007bacc5d5>] batadv_v_elp_periodic_work+0x2f4/0x508 [<00000000adc3cd94>] process_one_work+0x4b8/0xa1c [<00000000b36425d1>] worker_thread+0x9c/0x634 [<0000000005852dd5>] kthread+0x1bc/0x1c4 [<000000005fccd770>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 unreferenced object 0xffff000009051f00 (size 128): comm "kworker/u8:4", pid 67, jiffies 4295419553 (age 1836.440s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 90 d6 92 0d 00 00 ff ff 00 d8 68 06 00 00 ff ff ..........h..... 36 27 92 e4 02 e0 01 00 00 58 79 06 00 00 ff ff 6'.......Xy..... backtrace: [<000000007302a0b6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e0/0x35c [<00000000049bd418>] kmalloc_trace+0x34/0x80 [<0000000000d792bb>] mesh_queue_preq+0x44/0x2a8 [<00000000c99c3696>] mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x198/0x19c [<00000000926bf598>] ieee80211_xmit+0x1d0/0x1f4 [<00000000fc8c2284>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x30c/0x764 [<000000005926ee38>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x9c/0x7a4 [<000000004c86e916>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x174/0x440 [<0000000023495647>] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x111c [<00000000cfe9ca78>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x180/0x1e4 [<000000007bacc5d5>] batadv_v_elp_periodic_work+0x2f4/0x508 [<00000000adc3cd94>] process_one_work+0x4b8/0xa1c [<00000000b36425d1>] worker_thread+0x9c/0x634 [<0000000005852dd5>] kthread+0x1bc/0x1c4 [<000000005fccd770>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before 377dbb220edc8421b7960691876c5b3bef62f89b; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before ec79670eae430b3ffb7e0a6417ad7657728b8f95; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before 7518e20a189f8659b8b83969db4d33a4068fcfc3; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before c4c865f971fd4a255208f57ef04d814c2ae9e0dc; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before 617dadbfb2d3e152c5753e28356d189c9d6f33c0; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before 63d5f89bb5664d60edbf8cf0df911aaae8ed96a4; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before d81e244af521de63ad2883e17571b789c39b6549; affected 050ac52cbe1f3de2fb0d06f02c7919ae1f691c9e before b7d7f11a291830fdf69d3301075dd0fb347ced84
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.26; unaffected 0 before 2.6.26; unaffected 4.19.317 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.279 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.221 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.162 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.95 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.35 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.9.6 through 6.9.*; unaffected 6.10 through *

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