[PATCH] wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7996_mac_dump_work()

Duoming Zhou duoming at zju.edu.cn
Fri Jan 30 18:47:31 PST 2026


When the mt7996 pci chip is detaching, the mt7996_crash_data is
released in mt7996_coredump_unregister(). However, the work item
dump_work may still be running or pending, leading to UAF bugs
when the already freed crash_data is dereferenced again in
mt7996_mac_dump_work().

The race condition can occur as follows:

CPU 0 (removal path)               | CPU 1 (workqueue)
mt7996_pci_remove()                | mt7996_sys_recovery_set()
 mt7996_unregister_device()        |  mt7996_reset()
  mt7996_coredump_unregister()     |   queue_work()
   vfree(dev->coredump.crash_data) | mt7996_mac_dump_work()
                                   |  crash_data-> // UAF

Fix this by ensuring dump_work is properly canceled before
the crash_data is deallocated. Add cancel_work_sync() in
mt7996_unregister_device() to synchronize with any pending
or executing dump work.

Fixes: 878161d5d4a4 ("wifi: mt76: mt7996: enable coredump support")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming at zju.edu.cn>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c
index 00a8286bd13..0ccaa5dce19 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c
@@ -1726,6 +1726,7 @@ int mt7996_register_device(struct mt7996_dev *dev)
 
 void mt7996_unregister_device(struct mt7996_dev *dev)
 {
+	cancel_work_sync(&dev->dump_work);
 	cancel_work_sync(&dev->wed_rro.work);
 	mt7996_unregister_phy(mt7996_phy3(dev));
 	mt7996_unregister_phy(mt7996_phy2(dev));
-- 
2.34.1




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