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mac80211: fix race in ieee80211_register_hw()
authorSumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 10:10:55 +0000 (15:40 +0530)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:31:58 +0000 (09:31 +0200)
commitee3bb3b0b17a5a8d1733e8631a62eb1d1f348ec1
tree52ed2229408e9a93884f3b6ade206abba0ef1428
parentcf5ef5eec81699832221115aa3aedc5df3e7ac9d
mac80211: fix race in ieee80211_register_hw()

A race condition leading to a kernel crash is observed during invocation
of ieee80211_register_hw() on a dragonboard410c device having wcn36xx
driver built as a loadable module along with a wifi manager in user-space
waiting for a wifi device (wlanX) to be active.

Sequence diagram for a particular kernel crash scenario:

    user-space  ieee80211_register_hw()  ieee80211_tasklet_handler()
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
       |                    |                 |
       |<---phy0----wiphy_register()          |
       |-----iwd if_add---->|                 |
       |                    |<---IRQ----(RX packet)
       |              Kernel crash            |
       |              due to unallocated      |
       |              workqueue.              |
       |                    |                 |
       |       alloc_ordered_workqueue()      |
       |                    |                 |
       |              Misc wiphy init.        |
       |                    |                 |
       |            ieee80211_if_add()        |
       |                    |                 |

As evident from above sequence diagram, this race condition isn't specific
to a particular wifi driver but rather the initialization sequence in
ieee80211_register_hw() needs to be fixed. So re-order the initialization
sequence and the updated sequence diagram would look like:

    user-space  ieee80211_register_hw()  ieee80211_tasklet_handler()
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
       |                    |                 |
       |       alloc_ordered_workqueue()      |
       |                    |                 |
       |              Misc wiphy init.        |
       |                    |                 |
       |<---phy0----wiphy_register()          |
       |-----iwd if_add---->|                 |
       |                    |<---IRQ----(RX packet)
       |                    |                 |
       |            ieee80211_if_add()        |
       |                    |                 |

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1586254255-28713-1-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
[Johannes: fix rtnl imbalances]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/main.c