From: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>,
Tova Mussai <tova.mussai@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 19:53:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260524165320.62089-1-pchelkin@ispras.ru> (raw)
rdev->int_scan_req is leaked if cfg80211_scan() fails [1]. It's supposed
to be released at ___cfg80211_scan_done() but this doesn't happen as
rdev->scan_req is NULL at that point, too, leading to the early return
from the freeing function. Anyway scan_done shouldn't ever be expected to
be called if triggering the scan has already failed.
Note that the similar pattern at cfg80211_scan_6ghz() looks okay since
int_scan_req is freed there on error in case first_part is being
processed. On the other side, when first_part is false - called directly
from ___cfg80211_scan_done() - the old int_scan_req is kept then and will
be freed afterwards.
[1]:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881161d0800 (size 512):
comm "wpa_supplicant", pid 379, jiffies 4294749765
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 81 13 16 81 88 ff ff ................
backtrace (crc c867fdb6):
kmemleak_alloc+0x89/0x90
__kmalloc_noprof+0x2fd/0x410
cfg80211_scan+0x133/0x730
nl80211_trigger_scan+0xc69/0x1cc0
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x204/0x2f0
genl_rcv_msg+0x431/0x6b0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x143/0x3f0
genl_rcv+0x27/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x4f6/0x820
netlink_sendmsg+0x797/0xce0
__sock_sendmsg+0xc4/0x160
____sys_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x890
___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x180
__sys_sendmsg+0x136/0x1e0
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x76/0xc0
x64_sys_call+0x13f0/0x17d0
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
Fixes: c8cb5b854b40 ("nl80211/cfg80211: support 6 GHz scanning")
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
---
net/wireless/scan.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 358cbc9e43d8..fe7b47d046c7 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -1071,6 +1071,7 @@ int cfg80211_scan(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
struct cfg80211_scan_request_int *request;
struct cfg80211_scan_request_int *rdev_req = rdev->scan_req;
u32 n_channels = 0, idx, i;
+ int err;
if (!(rdev->wiphy.flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SPLIT_SCAN_6GHZ)) {
rdev_req->req.first_part = true;
@@ -1101,7 +1102,12 @@ int cfg80211_scan(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
rdev_req->req.scan_6ghz = false;
rdev_req->req.first_part = true;
rdev->int_scan_req = request;
- return rdev_scan(rdev, request);
+ err = rdev_scan(rdev, request);
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(rdev->int_scan_req);
+ rdev->int_scan_req = NULL;
+ }
+ return err;
}
void ___cfg80211_scan_done(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-24 16:53 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-24 16:53 Fedor Pchelkin [this message]
2026-05-28 8:42 ` Johannes Berg
2026-06-01 9:25 ` Fedor Pchelkin
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