Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mt76: mt7921: fix crash when startup fails.
If the nic fails to start, it is possible that the
reset_work has already been scheduled. Ensure the
work item is canceled so we do not have use-after-free
crash in case cleanup is called before the work item
is executed.
This fixes crash on my x86_64 apu2 when mt7921k radio
fails to work. Radio still fails, but OS does not
crash.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath11k: mhi: use mhi_sync_power_up()
If amss.bin was missing ath11k would crash during 'rmmod ath11k_pci'. The
reason for that was that we were using mhi_async_power_up() which does not
check any errors. But mhi_sync_power_up() on the other hand does check for
errors so let's use that to fix the crash.
I was not able to find a reason why an async version was used.
ath11k_mhi_start() (which enables state ATH11K_MHI_POWER_ON) is called from
ath11k_hif_power_up(), which can sleep. So sync version should be safe to use
here.
[ 145.569731] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI
[ 145.569789] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
[ 145.569843] CPU: 2 PID: 1628 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.16.0-wt-ath+ #567
[ 145.569898] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC8i7HVK/NUC8i7HVB, BIOS HNKBLi70.86A.0067.2021.0528.1339 05/28/2021
[ 145.569956] RIP: 0010:ath11k_hal_srng_access_begin+0xb5/0x2b0 [ath11k]
[ 145.570028] Code: df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 ec 01 00 00 48 8b ab a8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14 02 48 89 e8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 45 85 ed 75 48 38 d0 7c 08
[ 145.570089] RSP: 0018:ffffc900025d7ac0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 145.570144] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88814fca2dd8 RCX: 1ffffffff50cb455
[ 145.570196] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88814fca2dd8 RDI: ffff88814fca2e80
[ 145.570252] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffa8659497
[ 145.570329] R10: fffffbfff50cb292 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88814fca0000
[ 145.570410] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88814fca2798 R15: ffff88814fca2dd8
[ 145.570465] FS: 00007fa399988540(0000) GS:ffff888233e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 145.570519] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 145.570571] CR2: 00007fa399b51421 CR3: 0000000137898002 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[ 145.570623] Call Trace:
[ 145.570675] <TASK>
[ 145.570727] ? ath11k_ce_tx_process_cb+0x34b/0x860 [ath11k]
[ 145.570797] ath11k_ce_tx_process_cb+0x356/0x860 [ath11k]
[ 145.570864] ? tasklet_init+0x150/0x150
[ 145.570919] ? ath11k_ce_alloc_pipes+0x280/0x280 [ath11k]
[ 145.570986] ? tasklet_clear_sched+0x42/0xe0
[ 145.571042] ? tasklet_kill+0xe9/0x1b0
[ 145.571095] ? tasklet_clear_sched+0xe0/0xe0
[ 145.571148] ? irq_has_action+0x120/0x120
[ 145.571202] ath11k_ce_cleanup_pipes+0x45a/0x580 [ath11k]
[ 145.571270] ? ath11k_pci_stop+0x10e/0x170 [ath11k_pci]
[ 145.571345] ath11k_core_stop+0x8a/0xc0 [ath11k]
[ 145.571434] ath11k_core_deinit+0x9e/0x150 [ath11k]
[ 145.571499] ath11k_pci_remove+0xd2/0x260 [ath11k_pci]
[ 145.571553] pci_device_remove+0x9a/0x1c0
[ 145.571605] __device_release_driver+0x332/0x660
[ 145.571659] driver_detach+0x1e7/0x2c0
[ 145.571712] bus_remove_driver+0xe2/0x2d0
[ 145.571772] pci_unregister_driver+0x21/0x250
[ 145.571826] __do_sys_delete_module+0x30a/0x4b0
[ 145.571879] ? free_module+0xac0/0xac0
[ 145.571933] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare.part.0+0x18c/0x370
[ 145.571986] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1d/0x50
[ 145.572039] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100
[ 145.572097] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 145.572153] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03003-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-2
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath11k: fix kernel panic during unload/load ath11k modules
Call netif_napi_del() from ath11k_ahb_free_ext_irq() to fix
the following kernel panic when unload/load ath11k modules
for few iterations.
[ 971.201365] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6d97a208
[ 971.204227] pgd = 594c2919
[ 971.211478] [6d97a208] *pgd=00000000
[ 971.214120] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[ 971.412024] CPU: 2 PID: 4435 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.4.89 #0
[ 971.434256] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[ 971.440165] PC is at napi_by_id+0x10/0x40
[ 971.445019] LR is at netif_napi_add+0x160/0x1dc
[ 971.743127] (napi_by_id) from [<807d89a0>] (netif_napi_add+0x160/0x1dc)
[ 971.751295] (netif_napi_add) from [<7f1209ac>] (ath11k_ahb_config_irq+0xf8/0x414 [ath11k_ahb])
[ 971.759164] (ath11k_ahb_config_irq [ath11k_ahb]) from [<7f12135c>] (ath11k_ahb_probe+0x40c/0x51c [ath11k_ahb])
[ 971.768567] (ath11k_ahb_probe [ath11k_ahb]) from [<80666864>] (platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x94)
[ 971.779670] (platform_drv_probe) from [<80664718>] (really_probe+0x1c8/0x450)
[ 971.789389] (really_probe) from [<80664cc4>] (driver_probe_device+0x15c/0x1b8)
[ 971.797547] (driver_probe_device) from [<80664f60>] (device_driver_attach+0x44/0x60)
[ 971.805795] (device_driver_attach) from [<806650a0>] (__driver_attach+0x124/0x140)
[ 971.814822] (__driver_attach) from [<80662adc>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x58/0xa4)
[ 971.823328] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<80663a2c>] (bus_add_driver+0xf0/0x1e8)
[ 971.831662] (bus_add_driver) from [<806658a4>] (driver_register+0xa8/0xf0)
[ 971.839822] (driver_register) from [<8030269c>] (do_one_initcall+0x78/0x1ac)
[ 971.847638] (do_one_initcall) from [<80392524>] (do_init_module+0x54/0x200)
[ 971.855968] (do_init_module) from [<803945b0>] (load_module+0x1e30/0x1ffc)
[ 971.864126] (load_module) from [<803948b0>] (sys_init_module+0x134/0x17c)
[ 971.871852] (sys_init_module) from [<80301000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x50)
Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.6.0.1-00760-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath11k: pci: fix crash on suspend if board file is not found
Mario reported that the kernel was crashing on suspend if ath11k was not able
to find a board file:
[ 473.693286] PM: Suspending system (s2idle)
[ 473.693291] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 474.407787] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000002070
[ 474.407791] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 474.407794] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 474.407798] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 474.407801] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 474.407805] CPU: 2 PID: 2350 Comm: kworker/u32:14 Tainted: G W 5.16.0 #248
[...]
[ 474.407868] Call Trace:
[ 474.407870] <TASK>
[ 474.407874] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0x60
[ 474.407882] ? lock_timer_base+0x72/0xa0
[ 474.407889] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x29/0x3d
[ 474.407892] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x54/0x80
[ 474.407896] ath11k_dp_rx_pktlog_stop+0x49/0xc0 [ath11k]
[ 474.407912] ath11k_core_suspend+0x34/0x130 [ath11k]
[ 474.407923] ath11k_pci_pm_suspend+0x1b/0x50 [ath11k_pci]
[ 474.407928] pci_pm_suspend+0x7e/0x170
[ 474.407935] ? pci_pm_freeze+0xc0/0xc0
[ 474.407939] dpm_run_callback+0x4e/0x150
[ 474.407947] __device_suspend+0x148/0x4c0
[ 474.407951] async_suspend+0x20/0x90
dmesg-efi-164255130401001:
Oops#1 Part1
[ 474.407955] async_run_entry_fn+0x33/0x120
[ 474.407959] process_one_work+0x220/0x3f0
[ 474.407966] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0
[ 474.407971] kthread+0x17a/0x1a0
[ 474.407975] ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
[ 474.407979] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
[ 474.407983] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 474.407991] </TASK>
The issue here is that board file loading happens after ath11k_pci_probe()
succesfully returns (ath11k initialisation happends asynchronously) and the
suspend handler is still enabled, of course failing as ath11k is not properly
initialised. Fix this by checking ATH11K_FLAG_QMI_FAIL during both suspend and
resume.
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03003-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-2
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: svm range restore work deadlock when process exit
kfd_process_notifier_release flush svm_range_restore_work
which calls svm_range_list_lock_and_flush_work to flush deferred_list
work, but if deferred_list work mmput release the last user, it will
call exit_mmap -> notifier_release, it is deadlock with below backtrace.
Move flush svm_range_restore_work to kfd_process_wq_release to avoid
deadlock. Then svm_range_restore_work take task->mm ref to avoid mm is
gone while validating and mapping ranges to GPU.
Workqueue: events svm_range_deferred_list_work [amdgpu]
Call Trace:
wait_for_completion+0x94/0x100
__flush_work+0x12a/0x1e0
__cancel_work_timer+0x10e/0x190
cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x13/0x20
kfd_process_notifier_release+0x98/0x2a0 [amdgpu]
__mmu_notifier_release+0x74/0x1f0
exit_mmap+0x170/0x200
mmput+0x5d/0x130
svm_range_deferred_list_work+0x104/0x230 [amdgpu]
process_one_work+0x220/0x3c0
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlxsw: spectrum: Guard against invalid local ports
When processing events generated by the device's firmware, the driver
protects itself from events reported for non-existent local ports, but
not for the CPU port (local port 0), which exists, but does not have all
the fields as any local port.
This can result in a NULL pointer dereference when trying access
'struct mlxsw_sp_port' fields which are not initialized for CPU port.
Commit 63b08b1f6834 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware")
already handled such issue by bailing early when processing a PUDE event
reported for the CPU port.
Generalize the approach by moving the check to a common function and
making use of it in all relevant places.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix memory leak
[why]
Resource release is needed on the error handling path
to prevent memory leak.
[how]
Fix this by adding kfree on the error handling path.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix queuing commands when HCI_UNREGISTER is set
hci_cmd_sync_queue shall return an error if HCI_UNREGISTER flag has
been set as that means hci_unregister_dev has been called so it will
likely cause a uaf after the timeout as the hdev will be freed.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs: fix refcount leak of a dma_fence obj
This issue takes place in an error path in
amdgpu_cs_fence_to_handle_ioctl(). When `info->in.what` falls into
default case, the function simply returns -EINVAL, forgetting to
decrement the reference count of a dma_fence obj, which is bumped
earlier by amdgpu_cs_get_fence(). This may result in reference count
leaks.
Fix it by decreasing the refcount of specific object before returning
the error code.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mips: ralink: fix a refcount leak in ill_acc_of_setup()
of_node_put(np) needs to be called when pdev == NULL.