From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH wireless 2/2] wifi: mac80211: fix fils_discovery double free on alloc failure
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:35:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260621093532.884188-2-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260621093532.884188-1-xmei5@asu.edu>
ieee80211_set_fils_discovery() calls kfree_rcu() on the old template
before allocating the replacement. If the kzalloc() then fails, it
returns -ENOMEM while link->u.ap.fils_discovery still points at the
object already queued for freeing. A later update or AP teardown
(ieee80211_stop_ap()) re-queues that same rcu_head; the second free is
caught by KASAN when the RCU sheaf is processed in softirq:
BUG: KASAN: double-free in rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850)
Free of addr ffff88800c065280 by task swapper/0/0
...
__rcu_free_sheaf_prepare (mm/slub.c:2634 mm/slub.c:2940)
rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850)
rcu_core (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
Queue the old object for kfree_rcu() only after the new one is published,
matching ieee80211_set_probe_resp() and ieee80211_set_s1g_short_beacon().
Fixes: 3b1c256eb4ae ("wifi: mac80211: fixes in FILS discovery updates")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index e926bced6..0bc10136b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -1145,9 +1145,6 @@ static int ieee80211_set_fils_discovery(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
fd->max_interval = params->max_interval;
old = sdata_dereference(link->u.ap.fils_discovery, sdata);
- if (old)
- kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head);
-
if (params->tmpl && params->tmpl_len) {
new = kzalloc(sizeof(*new) + params->tmpl_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new)
@@ -1159,6 +1156,9 @@ static int ieee80211_set_fils_discovery(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
RCU_INIT_POINTER(link->u.ap.fils_discovery, NULL);
}
+ if (old)
+ kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head);
+
*changed |= BSS_CHANGED_FILS_DISCOVERY;
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
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2026-06-21 9:35 [PATCH wireless 1/2] wifi: mac80211: fix unsol_bcast_probe_resp double free on alloc failure Xiang Mei
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