CVE: CVE-2024-43911
Published: 2024-08-26
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: fix NULL dereference at band check in starting tx ba session

In MLD connection, link_data/link_conf are dynamically allocated. They
don't point to vif->bss_conf. So, there will be no chanreq assigned to
vif->bss_conf and then the chan will be NULL. Tweak the code to check
ht_supported/vht_supported/has_he/has_eht on sta deflink.

Crash log (with rtw89 version under MLO development):
[ 9890.526087] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 9890.526102] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 9890.526105] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 9890.526109] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 9890.526114] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 9890.526119] CPU: 2 PID: 6367 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE      6.9.0 #1
[ 9890.526123] Hardware name: LENOVO 2356AD1/2356AD1, BIOS G7ETB3WW (2.73 ) 11/28/2018
[ 9890.526126] Workqueue: phy2 rtw89_core_ba_work [rtw89_core]
[ 9890.526203] RIP: 0010:ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session (net/mac80211/agg-tx.c:618 (discriminator 1)) mac80211
[ 9890.526279] Code: f7 e8 d5 93 3e ea 48 83 c4 28 89 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 49 8b 84 24 e0 f1 ff ff 48 8b 80 90 1b 00 00 <83> 38 03 0f 84 37 fe ff ff bb ea ff ff ff eb cc 49 8b 84 24 10 f3
All code
========
   0:	f7 e8                	imul   %eax
   2:	d5                   	(bad)
   3:	93                   	xchg   %eax,%ebx
   4:	3e ea                	ds (bad)
   6:	48 83 c4 28          	add    $0x28,%rsp
   a:	89 d8                	mov    %ebx,%eax
   c:	5b                   	pop    %rbx
   d:	41 5c                	pop    %r12
   f:	41 5d                	pop    %r13
  11:	41 5e                	pop    %r14
  13:	41 5f                	pop    %r15
  15:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  16:	c3                   	retq
  17:	cc                   	int3
  18:	cc                   	int3
  19:	cc                   	int3
  1a:	cc                   	int3
  1b:	49 8b 84 24 e0 f1 ff 	mov    -0xe20(%r12),%rax
  22:	ff
  23:	48 8b 80 90 1b 00 00 	mov    0x1b90(%rax),%rax
  2a:*	83 38 03             	cmpl   $0x3,(%rax)		<-- trapping instruction
  2d:	0f 84 37 fe ff ff    	je     0xfffffffffffffe6a
  33:	bb ea ff ff ff       	mov    $0xffffffea,%ebx
  38:	eb cc                	jmp    0x6
  3a:	49                   	rex.WB
  3b:	8b                   	.byte 0x8b
  3c:	84 24 10             	test   %ah,(%rax,%rdx,1)
  3f:	f3                   	repz

Code starting with the faulting instruction
===========================================
   0:	83 38 03             	cmpl   $0x3,(%rax)
   3:	0f 84 37 fe ff ff    	je     0xfffffffffffffe40
   9:	bb ea ff ff ff       	mov    $0xffffffea,%ebx
   e:	eb cc                	jmp    0xffffffffffffffdc
  10:	49                   	rex.WB
  11:	8b                   	.byte 0x8b
  12:	84 24 10             	test   %ah,(%rax,%rdx,1)
  15:	f3                   	repz
[ 9890.526285] RSP: 0018:ffffb8db09013d68 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 9890.526291] RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffff9308e0d656c8
[ 9890.526295] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: ffffffffab99460b RDI: ffffffffab9a7685
[ 9890.526300] RBP: ffffb8db09013db8 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 9890.526304] R10: ffff9308e0d64800 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff9308e5ff6e70
[ 9890.526308] R13: ffff930952500e20 R14: ffff9309192a8c00 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 9890.526313] FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff930b4e700000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[ 9890.526316] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 9890.526318] CR2: [PII_REDACTED] CR3:[PII_REDACTED]c58005 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]1706f0
[ 9890.526321] Call Trace:
[ 9890.526324]  <TASK>
[ 9890.526327] ? show_regs (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:479)
[ 9890.526335] ? __die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434)
[ 9890.526340] ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:713)
[ 9890.526347] ? search_module_extables (kernel/module/main.c:3256 (discriminator
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/021d53a3d87eeb9dbba524ac515651242a2a7e3b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5594c1e03b0df3908b1e1202a1ba34422eed0f6; https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html