5.5

CVE-2024-50236

wifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx

In the current logic, memory is allocated for storing the MSDU context
during management packet TX but this memory is not being freed during
management TX completion. Similar leaks are seen in the management TX
cleanup logic.

Kmemleak reports this problem as below,

unreferenced object 0xffffff80b64ed250 (size 16):
  comm "kworker/u16:7", pid 148, jiffies 4294687130 (age 714.199s)
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    00 2b d8 d8 80 ff ff ff c4 74 e9 fd 07 00 00 00  .+.......t......
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffe6e7b245dc>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e4/0x2d8
    [<ffffffe6e7adde88>] kmalloc_trace+0x48/0x110
    [<ffffffe6bbd765fc>] ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_gen_mgmt_tx_send+0xd4/0x1d8 [ath10k_core]
    [<ffffffe6bbd3eed4>] ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_work+0x134/0x298 [ath10k_core]
    [<ffffffe6e78d5974>] process_scheduled_works+0x1ac/0x400
    [<ffffffe6e78d60b8>] worker_thread+0x208/0x328
    [<ffffffe6e78dc890>] kthread+0x100/0x1c0
    [<ffffffe6e78166c0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Free the memory during completion and cleanup to fix the leak.

Protect the mgmt_pending_tx idr_remove() operation in
ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_cleanup_mgmt_tx_send() using ar->data_lock similar to
other instances.

Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.2.0-01387-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.19 < 4.19.323
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.285
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.229
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.171
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.116
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.60
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.11.7
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc5
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.26% 0.172
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f6f1e26ac6d2b38e2198a71f81f0ade14d6b07b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4112450da7d67b59ccedc2208bae622db17dbcb8
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f5a939759c79e7385946c85e62feca51a18d816
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc23898e6ba47e976050d3c080b4d2c1add3748
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fc9af3df6ca7f3c94774d20f62dc7b49616026d
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/705be2dc45c7f852e211e16bc41a916fab741983
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e15d84b3bba187aa372dff7c58ce1fd5cb48a076
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eff818238bedb9c2484c251ec46f9f160911cdc0
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html