CVE-2022-49132

published 2025-02-26

CVE-2022-49132: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ath11k: pci: fix crash on suspend if board file is not found Mario reported that the kernel…

Priority P4 20 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ath11k: pci: fix crash on suspend if board file is not found

Mario reported that the kernel was crashing on suspend if ath11k was not able
to find a board file:

[ 473.693286] PM: Suspending system (s2idle)
[ 473.693291] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 474.407787] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000002070
[ 474.407791] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 474.407794] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 474.407798] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 474.407801] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 474.407805] CPU: 2 PID: 2350 Comm: kworker/u32:14 Tainted: G W 5.16.0 #248
[...]
[ 474.407868] Call Trace:
[ 474.407870]
[ 474.407874] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0x60
[ 474.407882] ? lock_timer_base+0x72/0xa0
[ 474.407889] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x29/0x3d
[ 474.407892] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x54/0x80
[ 474.407896] ath11k_dp_rx_pktlog_stop+0x49/0xc0 [ath11k]
[ 474.407912] ath11k_core_suspend+0x34/0x130 [ath11k]
[ 474.407923] ath11k_pci_pm_suspend+0x1b/0x50 [ath11k_pci]
[ 474.407928] pci_pm_suspend+0x7e/0x170
[ 474.407935] ? pci_pm_freeze+0xc0/0xc0
[ 474.407939] dpm_run_callback+0x4e/0x150
[ 474.407947] __device_suspend+0x148/0x4c0
[ 474.407951] async_suspend+0x20/0x90
dmesg-efi-164255130401001:
Oops#1 Part1
[ 474.407955] async_run_entry_fn+0x33/0x120
[ 474.407959] process_one_work+0x220/0x3f0
[ 474.407966] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0
[ 474.407971] kthread+0x17a/0x1a0
[ 474.407975] ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
[ 474.407979] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
[ 474.407983] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 474.407991]

The issue here is that board file loading happens after ath11k_pci_probe()
succesfully returns (ath11k initialisation happends asynchronously) and the
suspend handler is still enabled, of course failing as ath11k is not properly
initialised. Fix this by checking ATH11K_FLAG_QMI_FAIL during both suspend and
resume.

Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI W

Affected

12 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 5.17.3-1 (bookworm)	linux 5.17.3-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < fed4cef115ab21a18faf499b3fa9b9a4b544f941	fed4cef115ab21a18faf499b3fa9b9a4b544f941
linux	linux	>= d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < f3c5ef433da82d257337424b3647ce9dcb37d4b5	f3c5ef433da82d257337424b3647ce9dcb37d4b5
linux	linux	>= d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < aeed776c00e804a0f7896db39c7c661cea34ee1f	aeed776c00e804a0f7896db39c7c661cea34ee1f
linux	linux	>= d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d < b4f4c56459a5c744f7f066b9fc2b54ea995030c5	b4f4c56459a5c744f7f066b9fc2b54ea995030c5
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.17.3-1	5.17.3-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.17.3-1	5.17.3-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.17.3-1	5.17.3-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.16 < 5.16.20	5.16.20
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.17 < 5.17.3	5.17.3
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.6 < 5.15.34	5.15.34

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.5 MEDIUM

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