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Johannes Berg d5befb224e mac80211: fix deadlock in AP/VLAN handling
Syzbot reports that when you have AP_VLAN interfaces that are up
and close the AP interface they belong to, we get a deadlock. No
surprise - since we dev_close() them with the wiphy mutex held,
which goes back into the netdev notifier in cfg80211 and tries to
acquire the wiphy mutex there.

To fix this, we need to do two things:
 1) prevent changing iftype while AP_VLANs are up, we can't
    easily fix this case since cfg80211 already calls us with
    the wiphy mutex held, but change_interface() is relatively
    rare in drivers anyway, so changing iftype isn't used much
    (and userspace has to fall back to down/change/up anyway)
 2) pull the dev_close() loop over VLANs out of the wiphy mutex
    section in the normal stop case

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+452ea4fbbef700ff0a56@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a05829a722 ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210517160322.9b8f356c0222.I392cb0e2fa5a1a94cf2e637555d702c7e512c1ff@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2021-06-08 11:33:07 +02:00
arch Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter, 2021-05-26 17:44:49 -10:00
block block-5.13-2021-05-22 2021-05-22 07:40:34 -10:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter, 2021-05-26 17:44:49 -10:00
drivers staging: rtl8723bs: fix monitor netdev register/unregister 2021-05-31 21:27:15 +02:00
fs proc: Check /proc/$pid/attr/ writes against file opener 2021-05-25 10:24:41 -10:00
include mac80211: Fix NULL ptr deref for injected rate info 2021-05-31 21:40:17 +02:00
init Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-05-11 16:05:56 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
kernel Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter, 2021-05-26 17:44:49 -10:00
lib lib: kunit: suppress a compilation warning of frame size 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
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mm userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix new flag usage in error path 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
net mac80211: fix deadlock in AP/VLAN handling 2021-06-08 11:33:07 +02:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-05-11 16:05:56 -07:00
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security trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
sound sound fixes for 5.13-rc3 2021-05-20 06:42:21 -10:00
tools mptcp: update selftest for fallback due to OoO 2021-05-28 13:51:40 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt kvm: Cap halt polling at kvm->max_halt_poll_ns 2021-05-07 06:06:22 -04:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter, 2021-05-26 17:44:49 -10:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.