From 87a270625a89fc841f1a7e21aae6176543d8385c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:22:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: fix locking in ieee80211_start_ap error path
Git-commit: 87a270625a89fc841f1a7e21aae6176543d8385c
Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc7
References: git-fixes
We need to hold the local->mtx to release the channel context,
as even encoded by the lockdep_assert_held() there. Fix it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 295b02c4be74 ("mac80211: Add FILS discovery support")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+11c342e5e30e9539cabd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220090836.cee3d59a1915.I36bba9b79dc2ff4d57c3c7aa30dff9a003fe8c5c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index bd3d3195097f..2d0dd69f9753 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -1264,7 +1264,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
return 0;
error:
+ mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
+ mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
+
return err;
}
--
2.31.1