wifi: mt76: mt7921/mt7925: fix NULL dereference in CSA beacon

This patch is based on a BUG as reported by Bongani Hlope at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260502125824.425d7159@bongani-mini.home.org.za/

When a channel-switch announcement (CSA) beacon is received,
cfg80211 queues a wiphy work item that eventually calls
mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon(). If the station disconnects
(or the channel context is otherwise torn down) between the
time the work is queued and the time it runs, the driver's
dev->new_ctx pointer can already have been cleared to NULL.
mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon() then dereferences new_ctx
unconditionally, triggering a NULL pointer dereference at
address 0x0:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  RIP: 0010:mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon+0x1f/0x100 [mt7921_common]

The same missing guard exists in mt7925_channel_switch_rx_beacon(),
which shares the same code pattern introduced by the same commit.

Add an early-return NULL check for dev->new_ctx in both
mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon() and
mt7925_channel_switch_rx_beacon(). When new_ctx is NULL there is
no pending channel switch to process, so returning immediately is
the correct and safe action.

Fixes: 8aa2f59260eb ("wifi: mt76: mt7921: introduce CSA support")
Reported-by: Bongani Hlope <developer@hlope.org.za>
Oops-Analysis: http://oops.fenrus.org/reports/lkml/20260502125824.425d7159@bongani-mini.home.org.za/report.html
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260502125824.425d7159@bongani-mini.home.org.za/
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260504145107.1329197-1-arjan@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
index 3d74fabe74085ec3fd4f9eb3e2e41c199d37fdbe..a326f4c95c7c869736669859cf02e11caff28d60 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
@@ -1508,6 +1508,9 @@ static void mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        struct mt792x_vif *mvif = (struct mt792x_vif *)vif->drv_priv;
        u16 beacon_interval = vif->bss_conf.beacon_int;
 
+       if (!dev->new_ctx)
+               return;
+
        if (cfg80211_chandef_identical(&chsw->chandef,
                                       &dev->new_ctx->def) &&
                                       chsw->count) {

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c
index 73d3722739d0a8f28ecda7987f750a5e1ca048f2..ec6eb2897aeca313007f69bfb7d150fdf6eef330 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c
@@ -2400,6 +2400,9 @@ static void mt7925_channel_switch_rx_beacon(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        if (ieee80211_vif_is_mld(vif))
                return;
 
+       if (!dev->new_ctx)
+               return;
+
        beacon_interval = vif->bss_conf.beacon_int;
 
        if (cfg80211_chandef_identical(&chsw->chandef,