Vulnerability CVE-2024-40942
Published: 2024-07-12

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

wifi: mac80211: mesh: Fix leak of mesh_preq_queue objects

The hwmp code use objects of type mesh_preq_queue, added to a list in
ieee80211_if_mesh, to keep track of mpath we need to resolve. If the mpath
gets deleted, ex mesh interface is removed, the entries in that list will
never get cleaned. Fix this by flushing all corresponding items of the
preq_queue in mesh_path_flush_pending().

This should take care of KASAN reports like this:

unreferenced object 0xffff00000668d800 (size 128):
comm "kworker/u8:4", pid 67, jiffies 4295419552 (age 1836.444s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 1f 05 09 00 00 ff ff 00 d5 68 06 00 00 ff ff ..........h.....
8e 97 ea eb 3e b8 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....>...........
backtrace:
[<000000007302a0b6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e0/0x35c
[<00000000049bd418>] kmalloc_trace+0x34/0x80
[<0000000000d792bb>] mesh_queue_preq+0x44/0x2a8
[<00000000c99c3696>] mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x198/0x19c
[<00000000926bf598>] ieee80211_xmit+0x1d0/0x1f4
[<00000000fc8c2284>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x30c/0x764
[<000000005926ee38>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x9c/0x7a4
[<000000004c86e916>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x174/0x440
[<0000000023495647>] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x111c
[<00000000cfe9ca78>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x180/0x1e4
[<000000007bacc5d5>] batadv_v_elp_periodic_work+0x2f4/0x508
[<00000000adc3cd94>] process_one_work+0x4b8/0xa1c
[<00000000b36425d1>] worker_thread+0x9c/0x634
[<0000000005852dd5>] kthread+0x1bc/0x1c4
[<000000005fccd770>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff000009051f00 (size 128):
comm "kworker/u8:4", pid 67, jiffies 4295419553 (age 1836.440s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
90 d6 92 0d 00 00 ff ff 00 d8 68 06 00 00 ff ff ..........h.....
36 27 92 e4 02 e0 01 00 00 58 79 06 00 00 ff ff 6'.......Xy.....
backtrace:
[<000000007302a0b6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e0/0x35c
[<00000000049bd418>] kmalloc_trace+0x34/0x80
[<0000000000d792bb>] mesh_queue_preq+0x44/0x2a8
[<00000000c99c3696>] mesh_nexthop_resolve+0x198/0x19c
[<00000000926bf598>] ieee80211_xmit+0x1d0/0x1f4
[<00000000fc8c2284>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x30c/0x764
[<000000005926ee38>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x9c/0x7a4
[<000000004c86e916>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x174/0x440
[<0000000023495647>] __dev_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x111c
[<00000000cfe9ca78>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x180/0x1e4
[<000000007bacc5d5>] batadv_v_elp_periodic_work+0x2f4/0x508
[<00000000adc3cd94>] process_one_work+0x4b8/0xa1c
[<00000000b36425d1>] worker_thread+0x9c/0x634
[<0000000005852dd5>] kthread+0x1bc/0x1c4
[<000000005fccd770>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/377dbb220edc8421b7960691876c5b3bef62f89b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec79670eae430b3ffb7e0a6417ad7657728b8f95
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7518e20a189f8659b8b83969db4d33a4068fcfc3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4c865f971fd4a255208f57ef04d814c2ae9e0dc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/617dadbfb2d3e152c5753e28356d189c9d6f33c0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63d5f89bb5664d60edbf8cf0df911aaae8ed96a4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d81e244af521de63ad2883e17571b789c39b6549
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7d7f11a291830fdf69d3301075dd0fb347ced84
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