From: Linus Lüssing ll@simonwunderlich.de
commit 4a2d4496e15ea5bb5c8e83b94ca8ca7fb045e7d3 upstream.
While commit 6a01afcf8468 ("mac80211: mesh: Free ie data when leaving mesh") fixed a memory leak on mesh leave / teardown it introduced a potential memory corruption caused by a double free when rejoining the mesh:
ieee80211_leave_mesh() -> kfree(sdata->u.mesh.ie); ... ieee80211_join_mesh() -> copy_mesh_setup() -> old_ie = ifmsh->ie; -> kfree(old_ie);
This double free / kernel panics can be reproduced by using wpa_supplicant with an encrypted mesh (if set up without encryption via "iw" then ifmsh->ie is always NULL, which avoids this issue). And then calling:
$ iw dev mesh0 mesh leave $ iw dev mesh0 mesh join my-mesh
Note that typically these commands are not used / working when using wpa_supplicant. And it seems that wpa_supplicant or wpa_cli are going through a NETDEV_DOWN/NETDEV_UP cycle between a mesh leave and mesh join where the NETDEV_UP resets the mesh.ie to NULL via a memcpy of default_mesh_setup in cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call, which then avoids the memory corruption, too.
The issue was first observed in an application which was not using wpa_supplicant but "Senf" instead, which implements its own calls to nl80211.
Fixing the issue by removing the kfree()'ing of the mesh IE in the mesh join function and leaving it solely up to the mesh leave to free the mesh IE.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6a01afcf8468 ("mac80211: mesh: Free ie data when leaving mesh") Reported-by: Matthias Kretschmer mathias.kretschmer@fit.fraunhofer.de Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing ll@simonwunderlich.de Tested-by: Mathias Kretschmer mathias.kretschmer@fit.fraunhofer.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310183513.28589-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -1811,13 +1811,11 @@ static int copy_mesh_setup(struct ieee80 const struct mesh_setup *setup) { u8 *new_ie; - const u8 *old_ie; struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = container_of(ifmsh, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data, u.mesh);
/* allocate information elements */ new_ie = NULL; - old_ie = ifmsh->ie;
if (setup->ie_len) { new_ie = kmemdup(setup->ie, setup->ie_len, @@ -1827,7 +1825,6 @@ static int copy_mesh_setup(struct ieee80 } ifmsh->ie_len = setup->ie_len; ifmsh->ie = new_ie; - kfree(old_ie);
/* now copy the rest of the setup parameters */ ifmsh->mesh_id_len = setup->mesh_id_len;