CVE-2024-53191 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: fix warning when unbinding

If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released. However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath12k_pci) and we get: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2098 at mm/slub.c:4689 free_large_kmalloc+0x4d/0x80 Call Trace: free_large_kmalloc ath12k_dp_free ath12k_core_deinit ath12k_pci_remove …

The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing initialization is failing.

In order to fix the issue just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in order to avoid the double free.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/223b546c6222d42147eff034433002ca5e2e7e09 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90556b96338aa6037cd26dac857327fda7c19732 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94c9100b600f05a36b33f9ed76dbd6fb0eb25386 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca68ce0d9f4bcd032fd1334441175ae399642a06