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authorDmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>2025-06-16 21:12:05 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-06-27 11:09:02 +0100
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wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
[ Upstream commit 15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870 ] Syzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to ping the device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device doesn't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueue managed by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' is not yet created and an attempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217 Fixes: e4a668c59080 ("carl9170: fix spurious restart due to high latency") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616181205.38883-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c19
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c
index a5265997b576..debac4699687 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c
@@ -438,14 +438,21 @@ static void carl9170_usb_rx_complete(struct urb *urb)
if (atomic_read(&ar->rx_anch_urbs) == 0) {
/*
- * The system is too slow to cope with
- * the enormous workload. We have simply
- * run out of active rx urbs and this
- * unfortunately leads to an unpredictable
- * device.
+ * At this point, either the system is too slow to
+ * cope with the enormous workload (so we have simply
+ * run out of active rx urbs and this unfortunately
+ * leads to an unpredictable device), or the device
+ * is not fully functional after an unsuccessful
+ * firmware loading attempts (so it doesn't pass
+ * ieee80211_register_hw() and there is no internal
+ * workqueue at all).
*/
- ieee80211_queue_work(ar->hw, &ar->ping_work);
+ if (ar->registered)
+ ieee80211_queue_work(ar->hw, &ar->ping_work);
+ else
+ pr_warn_once("device %s is not registered\n",
+ dev_name(&ar->udev->dev));
}
} else {
/*