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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Korenblit, Miriam Rachel" <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Subject: iwlwifi-mld: Fix fw id leak in OOM case
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 15:06:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02f66cee-4892-24a3-9a07-1e722fe8888f@candelatech.com> (raw)

Hello Miriam,

I believe you will want to add something like this to your driver to clear the
fw_id_to_link_sta ID in case you hit the ENOMEM case.

I have no reason to believe I am actually hitting this error case, but I saw
this questionable code while looking for reasons for the use-after-free I am hitting.

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/sta.c
index 5fb2a46241e4..de9939ad1d58 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/sta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/sta.c
@@ -535,13 +535,19 @@ iwl_mld_add_link_sta(struct iwl_mld *mld, struct ieee80211_link_sta *link_sta)
         ret = iwl_mld_allocate_link_sta_fw_id(mld, &fw_id, link_sta);
         if (ret)
                 return ret;

         if (link_sta == &link_sta->sta->deflink) {
                 mld_link_sta = &mld_sta->deflink;
         } else {
                 mld_link_sta = kzalloc(sizeof(*mld_link_sta), GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!mld_link_sta)
+               if (!mld_link_sta) {
+                       IWL_ERR(mld, "mld-add-link-sta, OOM, clearing fw_id_to_link_sta[%d]\n",
+                               fw_id);
+                       RCU_INIT_POINTER(mld->fw_id_to_link_sta[fw_id], NULL);
                         return -ENOMEM;
+               }
         }

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-02 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-02 23:06 Ben Greear [this message]
2026-03-03  7:28 ` iwlwifi-mld: Fix fw id leak in OOM case Korenblit, Miriam Rachel
2026-03-03 14:21   ` Ben Greear
2026-03-30  6:55     ` Korenblit, Miriam Rachel
2026-03-30 14:41       ` Ben Greear

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