[PATCH v2] wifi: ath10k: add peer map clean up for peer delete in ath10k_sta_state()

Kalle Valo kvalo at kernel.org
Mon Aug 1 23:57:39 PDT 2022


Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com> writes:

> When peer delete failed in a disconnect operation, use-after-free
> detected by KFENCE in below log. It is because for each vdev_id and
> address, it has only one struct ath10k_peer, it is allocated in
> ath10k_peer_map_event(). When connected to an AP, it has more than
> one HTT_T2H_MSG_TYPE_PEER_MAP reported from firmware, then the
> array peer_map of struct ath10k will be set muti-elements to the
> same ath10k_peer in ath10k_peer_map_event(). When peer delete failed
> in ath10k_sta_state(), the ath10k_peer will be free for the 1st peer
> id in array peer_map of struct ath10k, and then use-after-free happened
> for the 2nd peer id because they map to the same ath10k_peer.
>
> And clean up all peers in array peer_map for the ath10k_peer, then
> user-after-free disappeared
>
> peer map event log:
> [  306.911021] wlan0: authenticate with b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e
> [  306.957187] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac vdev 0 peer create b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e (new sta) sta 1 / 32 peer 1 / 33
> [  306.957395] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer map vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 246
> [  306.957404] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer map vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 198
> [  306.986924] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer map vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 166
>
> peer unmap event log:
> [  435.715691] wlan0: deauthenticating from b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
> [  435.716802] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac vdev 0 peer delete b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e sta ffff990e0e9c2b50 (sta gone)
> [  435.717177] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 246
> [  435.717186] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 198
> [  435.717193] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer b0:2a:43:e6:75:0e id 166
>
> use-after-free log:
> <6>[21705.888627] wlan0: deauthenticating from d0:76:8f:82:be:75 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
> <4>[21713.799910] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to delete peer d0:76:8f:82:be:75 for vdev 0: -110
> <4>[21713.799925] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: found sta peer d0:76:8f:82:be:75 (ptr 0000000000000000 id 102) entry on vdev 0 after it was supposedly removed
> <3>[21713.799968] ==================================================================
> <3>[21713.799991] BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in ath10k_sta_state+0x265/0xb8a [ath10k_core]
> <3>[21713.799991]

In the pending branch I removed the log level numbers, they just make
the commit log harder to read.

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