CVE-2024-40979 (Moderate severity, published 2024-07-11)
CVSS score: 4.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CWE: CWE-188
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: fix kernel crash during resume

Currently during resume, QMI target memory is not properly handled, resulting
in kernel crash in case DMA remap is not supported:

BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u16:54  pfn:36e80
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x36e80
page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
Call Trace:
 bad_page
 free_page_is_bad_report
 __free_pages_ok
 __free_pages
 dma_direct_free
 dma_free_attrs
 ath12k_qmi_free_target_mem_chunk
 ath12k_qmi_msg_mem_request_cb

The reason is:
Once ath12k module is loaded, firmware sends memory request to host. In case
DMA remap not supported, ath12k refuses the first request due to failure in
allocating with large segment size:

ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi firmware request memory request
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 7077888
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 8454144
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi dma allocation failed (7077888 B type 1), will try later with small size
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi delays mem_request 2
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi firmware request memory request

Later firmware comes back with more but small segments and allocation
succeeds:

ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 262144
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 65536
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288

Now ath12k is working. If suspend is triggered, firmware will be reloaded
during resume. As same as before, firmware requests two large segments at
first. In ath12k_qmi_msg_mem_request_cb() segment count and size are
assigned:

	ab->qmi.mem_seg_count == 2
	ab->qmi.target_mem[0].size == 7077888
	ab->qmi.target_mem[1].size == 8454144

Then allocation failed like before and ath12k_qmi_free_target_mem_chunk()
is called to free all allocated segments. Note the first segment is skipped
because its v.addr is cleared due to allocation failure:

	chunk->v.addr = dma_alloc_coherent()

Also note that this leaks that segment because it has not been freed.

While freeing the second segment, a size of 8454144 is passed to
dma_free_coherent(). However remember that this segment is allocated at
the first time firmware is loaded, before suspend. So its real size is
524288, much smaller than 8454144. As a result kernel found we are freeing
some memory which is in use and thus cras
---truncated---
Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not impacted by this CVE, as the vulnerability in question does not affect the specific versions or configurations of the Linux kernel used in its distributions. This ensures that users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not exposed to the potential risks associated with this issue, and no further action or mitigation is necessary for systems running this operating system.
Mitigation: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.