CVE-2022-49303 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drivers: staging: rtl8192eu: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle

There is a deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle() which is shown below:

(Thread 1) | (Thread 2) | _set_timer() rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()| mod_timer() spin_lock_bh() //(1) | (wait a time) … | rtw_join_timeout_handler() | _rtw_join_timeout_handler() del_timer_sync() | spin_lock_bh() //(2) (wait timer to stop) | …

We hold pmlmepriv->lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop but timer handler also need pmlmepriv->lock in position (2) of thread 2. As a result rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle() will block forever.

This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of spin_lock_bh() which could let timer handler to obtain the needed lock. What`s more we change spin_lock_bh() to spin_lock_irq() in _rtw_join_timeout_handler() in order to prevent deadlock.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fcddf9c7c10202946d5b19409efbdff744fba88 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25cf414b0610fea29d8e045f315648d9007c9a46