CVE-2022-49303
drivers: staging: rtl8192eu: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle
Published:
2/26/2025
Last updated:
10/1/2025
Reserved:
2/26/2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: staging: rtl8192eu: Fix deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle
There is a deadlock in rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle(), which is shown below:
(Thread 1) | (Thread 2)
| _set_timer()
rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()| mod_timer()
spin_lock_bh() //(1) | (wait a time)
... | rtw_join_timeout_handler()
| _rtw_join_timeout_handler()
del_timer_sync() | spin_lock_bh() //(2)
(wait timer to stop) | ...
We hold pmlmepriv->lock in position (1) of thread 1 and
use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler
also need pmlmepriv->lock in position (2) of thread 2.
As a result, rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle() will block forever.
This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of
spin_lock_bh(), which could let timer handler to obtain
the needed lock. What`s more, we change spin_lock_bh() to
spin_lock_irq() in _rtw_join_timeout_handler() in order to
prevent deadlock.
CNA assigner:
Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Requested by:
n/a
Products affected (3)
| Product |
Vendor |
Version |
| Linux |
Linux
|
n/a
|
| Linux |
Linux
|
< 5.6
|
| Linux |
Linux
|
<= 5.10.*
|