[PATCH v3] wireless: mt76: mt7921: Fix use-after-free in fw features query.

* [PATCH v3] wireless: mt76: mt7921: Fix use-after-free in fw features query.
@ 2023-03-22 16:37 Lorenzo Bianconi
  2023-03-22 20:58 ` Felix Fietkau
  2023-03-31 15:01 ` [v3] wifi: " Kalle Valo
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Bianconi @ 2023-03-22 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: nbd; +Cc: linux-wireless, lorenzo.bianconi, Ben Greear

From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

Stop referencing 'features' memory after release_firmware is called.

Fixes this crash:

RIP: 0010:mt7921_check_offload_capability+0x17d
mt7921_pci_probe+0xca/0x4b0
...

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
---
Changes since v2:
- get rid of the comments
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c
index 80c71acfe159..cc94531185da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c
@@ -171,12 +171,12 @@ mt7921_mac_init_band(struct mt7921_dev *dev, u8 band)
 
 u8 mt7921_check_offload_capability(struct device *dev, const char *fw_wm)
 {
-	struct mt7921_fw_features *features = NULL;
 	const struct mt76_connac2_fw_trailer *hdr;
 	struct mt7921_realease_info *rel_info;
 	const struct firmware *fw;
 	int ret, i, offset = 0;
 	const u8 *data, *end;
+	u8 offload_caps = 0;
 
 	ret = request_firmware(&fw, fw_wm, dev);
 	if (ret)
@@ -208,7 +208,10 @@ u8 mt7921_check_offload_capability(struct device *dev, const char *fw_wm)
 		data += sizeof(*rel_info);
 
 		if (rel_info->tag == MT7921_FW_TAG_FEATURE) {
+			struct mt7921_fw_features *features;
+
 			features = (struct mt7921_fw_features *)data;
+			offload_caps = features->data;
 			break;
 		}
 
@@ -218,7 +221,7 @@ u8 mt7921_check_offload_capability(struct device *dev, const char *fw_wm)
 out:
 	release_firmware(fw);
 
-	return features ? features->data : 0;
+	return offload_caps;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mt7921_check_offload_capability);
 
-- 
2.39.2


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