CVE: CVE-2024-40912
Published: 2024-07-12
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup()

The ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() function takes sta->ps_lock to
synchronizes with ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf() which is called from
softirq context. However using only spin_lock() to get sta->ps_lock in
ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() does not prevent softirq to execute
on this same CPU, to run ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf() and try to
take this same lock ending in deadlock. Below is an example of rcu stall
that arises in such situation.

 rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
 rcu:    2-....: (42413413 ticks this GP) idle=b154/1/0x[PII_REDACTED]000000 softirq=1763/1765 fqs=21206996
 rcu:    (t=42586894 jiffies g=2057 q=362405 ncpus=4)
 CPU: 2 PID: 719 Comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G        W          6.4.0-02158-g1b062f552873 #742
 Hardware name: RPT (r1) (DT)
 pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x58/0x2d0
 lr : invoke_tx_handlers_early+0x5b4/0x5c0
 sp : ffff00001ef64660
 x29: ffff00001ef64660 x28: ffff000009bc1070 x27: ffff000009bc0ad8
 x26: ffff000009bc0900 x25: ffff00001ef647a8 x24: [PII_REDACTED]
 x23: ffff000009bc0900 x22: ffff000009bc0900 x21: ffff00000ac0e000
 x20: ffff00000a279e00 x19: ffff00001ef646e8 x18: [PII_REDACTED]
 x17: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00 x16: ffff00001ef608c0 x15: 0010533c93f64f80
 x14: 0010395c9faa3946 x13: [PII_REDACTED] x12: 00000000fa83b2da
 x11: 000000012edeceea x10: ffff0000010fbe00 x9 : [PII_REDACTED]
 x8 :[PII_REDACTED]10533c x7 : ffff00000ad8b740 x6 : ffff00000c350880
 x5 : [PII_REDACTED] x4 : [PII_REDACTED] x3 : [PII_REDACTED]
 x2 : [PII_REDACTED] x1 : [PII_REDACTED] x0 : ffff00000ac0e0e8
 Call trace:
  queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x58/0x2d0
  ieee80211_tx+0x80/0x12c
  ieee80211_tx_pending+0x110/0x278
  tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x10c/0x144
  tasklet_action+0x20/0x28
  _stext+0x11c/0x284
  ____do_softirq+0xc/0x14
  call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x34
  do_softirq_own_stack+0x18/0x20
  do_softirq+0x74/0x7c
  __local_bh_enable_ip+0xa0/0xa4
  _ieee80211_wake_txqs+0x3b0/0x4b8
  __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x12c/0x168
  ieee80211_add_pending_skbs+0xec/0x138
  ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup+0x2a4/0x480
  ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update.part.0+0xd8/0x11c
  ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update+0x18/0x24
  sta_apply_parameters+0x3bc/0x4c0
  ieee80211_change_station+0x1b8/0x2dc
  nl80211_set_station+0x444/0x49c
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xa4/0xfc
  genl_rcv_msg+0x1b0/0x244
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x38/0x10c
  genl_rcv+0x34/0x48
  netlink_unicast+0x254/0x2bc
  netlink_sendmsg+0x190/0x3b4
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x218
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x68/0x8c
  __sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x84
  __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x20/0x28
  do_el0_svc+0x6c/0xe8
  el0_svc+0x14/0x48
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
  el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x150

Using spin_lock_bh()/spin_unlock_bh() instead prevents softirq to raise
on the same CPU that is holding the lock.
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-667
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28ba44d680a30c51cf485a2f5a3b680e66ed3932; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44c06bbde6443de206b30f513100b5670b23fc5e; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/456bbb8a31e425177dc0e8d4f98728a560c20e81