In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Jul 16, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 3, 2025
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jul 16, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jul 16, 2024
Last updated
Feb 3, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction
My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where
the exact same deadlock (see the original commit referenced
below) can still happen if cfg80211_destroy_ifaces() already
runs while nl80211_netlink_notify() is still marking some
interfaces as nl_owner_dead.
The race happens because we have two loops here - first we
dev_close() all the netdevs, and then we destroy them. If we
also have two netdevs (first one need only be a wdev though)
then we can find one during the first iteration, close it,
and go to the second iteration -- but then find two, and try
to destroy also the one we didn't close yet.
Fix this by only iterating once.
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