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CVE-2021-47349 (GCVE-0-2021-47349)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 14:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:52
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Title
mwifiex: bring down link before deleting interface
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mwifiex: bring down link before deleting interface We can deadlock when rmmod'ing the driver or going through firmware reset, because the cfg80211_unregister_wdev() has to bring down the link for us, ... which then grab the same wiphy lock. nl80211_del_interface() already handles a very similar case, with a nice description: /* * We hold RTNL, so this is safe, without RTNL opencount cannot * reach 0, and thus the rdev cannot be deleted. * * We need to do it for the dev_close(), since that will call * the netdev notifiers, and we need to acquire the mutex there * but don't know if we get there from here or from some other * place (e.g. "ip link set ... down"). */ mutex_unlock(&rdev->wiphy.mtx); ... Do similarly for mwifiex teardown, by ensuring we bring the link down first. Sample deadlock trace: [ 247.103516] INFO: task rmmod:2119 blocked for more than 123 seconds. [ 247.110630] Not tainted 5.12.4 #5 [ 247.115796] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 247.124557] task:rmmod state:D stack: 0 pid: 2119 ppid: 2114 flags:0x00400208 [ 247.133905] Call trace: [ 247.136644] __switch_to+0x130/0x170 [ 247.140643] __schedule+0x714/0xa0c [ 247.144548] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x88/0xf4 [ 247.149714] __mutex_lock_common+0x43c/0x750 [ 247.154496] mutex_lock_nested+0x5c/0x68 [ 247.158884] cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x280/0x4e0 [cfg80211] [ 247.165769] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x78 [ 247.170742] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x68/0xa4 [ 247.176305] __dev_close_many+0x7c/0x138 [ 247.180693] dev_close_many+0x7c/0x10c [ 247.184893] unregister_netdevice_many+0xfc/0x654 [ 247.190158] unregister_netdevice_queue+0xb4/0xe0 [ 247.195424] _cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0xa4/0x204 [cfg80211] [ 247.201816] cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x20/0x2c [cfg80211] [ 247.208016] mwifiex_del_virtual_intf+0xc8/0x188 [mwifiex] [ 247.214174] mwifiex_uninit_sw+0x158/0x1b0 [mwifiex] [ 247.219747] mwifiex_remove_card+0x38/0xa0 [mwifiex] [ 247.225316] mwifiex_pcie_remove+0xd0/0xe0 [mwifiex_pcie] [ 247.231451] pci_device_remove+0x50/0xe0 [ 247.235849] device_release_driver_internal+0x110/0x1b0 [ 247.241701] driver_detach+0x5c/0x9c [ 247.245704] bus_remove_driver+0x84/0xb8 [ 247.250095] driver_unregister+0x3c/0x60 [ 247.254486] pci_unregister_driver+0x2c/0x90 [ 247.259267] cleanup_module+0x18/0xcdc [mwifiex_pcie]
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:38 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a05829a7222e9d10c416dd2dbbf3929fe6646b89 , < a3041d39d3c14da97fa3476835aba043ba810cf0 (git)
Affected: a05829a7222e9d10c416dd2dbbf3929fe6646b89 , < 35af69c7c0490fdccfc159c6a87e4d1dc070838a (git)
Affected: a05829a7222e9d10c416dd2dbbf3929fe6646b89 , < 1f9482aa8d412b4ba06ce6ab8e333fb8ca29a06e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.18 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13.3 , ≤ 5.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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