CVE-2022-48705 wifi: mt76: mt7921e: fix crash in chip reset fail
A flaw in the Linux kernel mt7921e WiFi driver causes a system crash during chip reset failures, leading to denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-48705?
CVE-2022-48705 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt7921e: fix crash in chip reset fail
In case of drv own fail in reset, we may need to run mac_reset several times. The sequence would trigger system crash as the log below.
Because we do not re-enable/schedule "tx_napi" before disable it again, the process would keep waiting for state change in napi_diable(). To avoid the problem and keep status synchronize for each run, goto final resource handling if drv own failed.
[ 5857.353423] mt7921e 0000:3b:00.0: driver own failed [ 5858.433427] mt7921e 0000:3b:00.0: Timeout for driver own [ 5859.633430] mt7921e 0000:3b:00.0: driver own failed [ 5859.633444] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5859.633446] WARNING: CPU: 6 at kernel/kthread.c:659 kthread_park+0x11d [ 5859.633717] Workqueue: mt76 mt7921_mac_reset_work [mt7921_common] [ 5859.633728] RIP: 0010:kthread_park+0x11d/0x150 [ 5859.633736] RSP: 0018:ffff8881b676fc68 EFLAGS: 00010202 ...... [ 5859.633766] Call Trace: [ 5859.633768] <TASK> [ 5859.633771] mt7921e_mac_reset+0x176/0x6f0 [mt7921e] [ 5859.633778] mt7921_mac_reset_work+0x184/0x3a0 [mt7921_common] [ 5859.633785] ? mt7921_mac_set_timing+0x520/0x520 [mt7921_common] [ 5859.633794] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 [ 5859.633802] process_one_work+0x7ee/0x1320 [ 5859.633810] worker_thread+0x53c/0x1240 [ 5859.633818] kthread+0x2b8/0x370 [ 5859.633824] ? process_one_work+0x1320/0x1320 [ 5859.633828] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x30/0x30 [ 5859.633834] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 5859.633842] </TASK>
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48705?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-48705?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2022-48705 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48705 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48705, GHSA-whw8-2wcg-hxvj, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48705.