From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>,
"Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+e91dc13b1b37759b3d9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: ath9k: make sure we stop the wmi tasklet on init fail
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:02:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021120237.481898-1-toke@toke.dk> (raw)
The ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet() reschedules itself until device
initialisation is complete, but if the initialisation fails it is never
interrupted. Syzbot triggered a use-after-free in tasklet_action_common
because of this.
Add a guard to the reschedule logic so it aborts if wmi->stopped is set,
and add a call to ath9k_wmi_event_drain() in ath9k_stop_wmi(), so we are
sure that the queue is drained and the tasklet is stopped on teardown.
Fixes: 1af8dc9ca726 ("wifi: ath9k: Clean up device initialisation guards")
Reported-by: syzbot+e91dc13b1b37759b3d9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e91dc13b1b37759b3d9f
Tested-by: syzbot+e91dc13b1b37759b3d9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
index 4a08babb6d9d..c60c8b63623d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ void ath9k_stop_wmi(struct ath9k_htc_priv *priv)
mutex_lock(&wmi->op_mutex);
wmi->stopped = true;
mutex_unlock(&wmi->op_mutex);
+
+ ath9k_wmi_event_drain(priv);
}
void ath9k_destroy_wmi(struct ath9k_htc_priv *priv)
@@ -148,7 +150,8 @@ void ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet(struct tasklet_struct *t)
/* Check if ath9k_init_device() completed. */
if (!smp_load_acquire(&priv->initialized)) {
- tasklet_schedule(t);
+ if (!READ_ONCE(wmi->stopped))
+ tasklet_schedule(t);
return;
}
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 12:02 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2026-10-26 1:56 ` [PATCH] wifi: ath9k: make sure we stop the wmi tasklet on init fail Eduard Zateev
2026-10-26 9:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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