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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: Zheng Hacker <hackerzheng666@gmail.com>,
	Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@163.com>,
	aspriel@gmail.com, franky.lin@broadcom.com,
	hante.meuleman@broadcom.com, johannes.berg@intel.com,
	marcan@marcan.st, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	jisoo.jang@yonsei.ac.kr, linuxlovemin@yonsei.ac.kr,
	wataru.gohda@cypress.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
	SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	security@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] wifi: brcmfmac: Fix use-after-free bug in brcmf_cfg80211_detach
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:11:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jhpvomw.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa0e7536-9b05-42fb-9fff-acd2ffad9af9@broadcom.com> (Arend van Spriel's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:18:06 +0100")

Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> writes:

> On November 8, 2023 4:03:26 AM Zheng Hacker <hackerzheng666@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> 于2023年11月6日周一 23:48写道:
>>>
>>> On November 6, 2023 3:44:53 PM Zheng Hacker <hackerzheng666@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks! I didn't test it for I don't have a device. Very appreciated
>>>> if anyone could help with that.
>>>
>>> I would volunteer, but it made me dig deep and not sure if there is a
>>> problem to solve here.
>>>
>>> brcmf_cfg80211_detach() calls wl_deinit_priv() -> brcmf_abort_scanning() ->
>>> brcmf_notify_escan_complete() which does delete the timer.
>>>
>>> What am I missing here?
>>
>> Thanks four your detailed review. I did see the code and not sure if
>> brcmf_notify_escan_complete
>> would be triggered for sure. So in the first version I want to delete
>> the pending timer ahead of time.
>
> Why requesting a CVE when you are not sure? Seems a bit hasty to put
> it mildly.

TBH I don't take CVE entries seriously anymore. I don't know what has
happened there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-13 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-06 14:17 [PATCH v5] wifi: brcmfmac: Fix use-after-free bug in brcmf_cfg80211_detach Zheng Wang
2023-11-06 14:41 ` Kalle Valo
2023-11-06 14:44   ` Zheng Hacker
2023-11-06 15:48     ` Arend Van Spriel
2023-11-08  3:03       ` Zheng Hacker
2023-11-13  9:18         ` Arend van Spriel
2023-11-13 12:11           ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2023-11-15 15:00           ` Zheng Hacker
2023-11-16 18:20             ` Arend Van Spriel
2023-11-16 18:25               ` Takashi Iwai
2023-11-16 19:02                 ` Arend Van Spriel
2023-11-17  2:31                 ` Zheng Hacker
2023-11-17  6:24                   ` Arend Van Spriel
2023-12-12 13:48 ` Lee Jones

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