CVE-2022-50408 wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free bug in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free bug in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit()

> ret = brcmf_proto_tx_queue_data(drvr, ifp->ifidx, skb);

may be schedule, and then complete before the line

> ndev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;

[   46.912801] ==================================================================
[   46.920552] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit+0x718/0x8c8 [brcmfmac]
[   46.928673] Read of size 4 at addr ffffff803f5882e8 by task systemd-resolve/328
[   46.935991]
[   46.937514] CPU: 1 PID: 328 Comm: systemd-resolve Tainted: G           O      5.4.199-[REDACTED] #1
[   46.947255] Hardware name: [REDACTED]
[   46.954568] Call trace:
[   46.957037]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2b8
[   46.960719]  show_stack+0x24/0x30
[   46.964052]  dump_stack+0x128/0x194
[   46.967557]  print_address_description.isra.0+0x64/0x380
[   46.972877]  __kasan_report+0x1d4/0x240
[   46.976723]  kasan_report+0xc/0x18
[   46.980138]  __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x18/0x20
[   46.985027]  brcmf_netdev_start_xmit+0x718/0x8c8 [brcmfmac]
[   46.990613]  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1bc/0xda0
[   46.994894]  sch_direct_xmit+0x198/0xd08
[   46.998827]  __qdisc_run+0x37c/0x1dc0
[   47.002500]  __dev_queue_xmit+0x1528/0x21f8
[   47.006692]  dev_queue_xmit+0x24/0x30
[   47.010366]  neigh_resolve_output+0x37c/0x678
[   47.014734]  ip_finish_output2+0x598/0x2458
[   47.018927]  __ip_finish_output+0x300/0x730
[   47.023118]  ip_output+0x2e0/0x430
[   47.026530]  ip_local_out+0x90/0x140
[   47.030117]  igmpv3_sendpack+0x14c/0x228
[   47.034049]  igmpv3_send_cr+0x384/0x6b8
[   47.037895]  igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x4c/0x118
[   47.042262]  call_timer_fn+0x1cc/0xbe8
[   47.046021]  __run_timers+0x4d8/0xb28
[   47.049693]  run_timer_softirq+0x24/0x40
[   47.053626]  __do_softirq+0x2c0/0x117c
[   47.057387]  irq_exit+0x2dc/0x388
[   47.060715]  __handle_domain_irq+0xb4/0x158
[   47.064908]  gic_handle_irq+0x58/0xb0
[   47.068581]  el0_irq_naked+0x50/0x5c
[   47.072162]
[   47.073665] Allocated by task 328:
[   47.077083]  save_stack+0x24/0xb0
[   47.080410]  __kasan_kmalloc.isra.0+0xc0/0xe0
[   47.084776]  kasan_slab_alloc+0x14/0x20
[   47.088622]  kmem_cache_alloc+0x15c/0x468
[   47.092643]  __alloc_skb+0xa4/0x498
[   47.096142]  igmpv3_newpack+0x158/0xd78
[   47.099987]  add_grhead+0x210/0x288
[   47.103485]  add_grec+0x6b0/0xb70
[   47.106811]  igmpv3_send_cr+0x2e0/0x6b8
[   47.110657]  igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x4c/0x118
[   47.115027]  call_timer_fn+0x1cc/0xbe8
[   47.118785]  __run_timers+0x4d8/0xb28
[   47.122457]  run_timer_softirq+0x24/0x40
[   47.126389]  __do_softirq+0x2c0/0x117c
[   47.130142]
[   47.131643] Freed by task 180:
[   47.134712]  save_stack+0x24/0xb0
[   47.138041]  __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x180
[   47.142146]  kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18
[   47.145904]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xa4/0x1b0
[   47.150444]  kmem_cache_free+0x8c/0x528
[   47.154292]  kfree_skbmem+0x94/0x108
[   47.157880]  consume_skb+0x10c/0x5a8
[   47.161466]  __dev_kfree_skb_any+0x88/0xa0
[   47.165598]  brcmu_pkt_buf_free_skb+0x44/0x68 [brcmutil]
[   47.171023]  brcmf_txfinalize+0xec/0x190 [brcmfmac]
[   47.176016]  brcmf_proto_bcdc_txcomplete+0x1c0/0x210 [brcmfmac]
[   47.182056]  brcmf_sdio_sendfromq+0x8dc/0x1e80 [brcmfmac]
[   47.187568]  brcmf_sdio_dpc+0xb48/0x2108 [brcmfmac]
[   47.192529]  brcmf_sdio_dataworker+0xc8/0x238 [brcmfmac]
[   47.197859]  process_one_work+0x7fc/0x1a80
[   47.201965]  worker_thread+0x31c/0xc40
[   47.205726]  kthread+0x2d8/0x370
[   47.208967]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
[   47.212546]
[   47.214051] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffff803f588280
[   47.214051]  which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 208
[   47.227086] The buggy address is located 104 bytes inside of
[   47.227086]  208-byte region [ffffff803f588280, ffffff803f588350)
[   47.238814] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[   47.243618] page:ffffffff00dd6200 refcount:1 mapcou
---truncated---
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-09-18T16:03:53.197Z