wifi: ath11k: use work queue to process beacon tx event
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: use work queue to process beacon tx event
Commit 3a415daa3e8b ("wifi: ath11k: add P2P IE in beacon template") from Feb 28, 2024 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c:1742 ath11k_wmi_p2p_go_bcn_ie() warn: sleeping in atomic context
The reason is that ath11k_bcn_tx_status_event() will directly call might sleep function ath11k_wmi_cmd_send() during RCU read-side critical sections. The call trace is like:
ath11k_bcn_tx_status_event() -> rcu_read_lock() -> ath11k_mac_bcn_tx_event() -> ath11k_mac_setup_bcn_tmpl() …… -> ath11k_wmi_bcn_tmpl() -> ath11k_wmi_cmd_send() -> rcu_read_unlock()
Commit 886433a98425 ("ath11k: add support for BSS color change") added the ath11k_mac_bcn_tx_event(), commit 01e782c89108 ("ath11k: fix warning of RCU usage for ath11k_mac_get_arvif_by_vdev_id()") added the RCU lock to avoid warning but also introduced this BUG.
Use work queue to avoid directly calling ath11k_mac_bcn_tx_event() during RCU critical sections. No need to worry about the deletion of vif because cancel_work_sync() will drop the work if it doesn't start or block vif deletion until the running work is done.
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
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Affected products
12- osv-coords10 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/linux@6.11.0-18.18?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws@6.11.0-1009.10?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-gcp@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-lowlatency@6.11.0-1010.11?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-oracle@6.11.0-1011.12?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-raspi@6.11.0-1008.8?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-realtime@6.11.0-1005.5?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source-longterm&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.11.0-18.18+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-18.18
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.10
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1010.11
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1011.12
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1008.8
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1005.5
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.8-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.11-1.1
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