Bug 2420368 (CVE-2023-53822) - CVE-2023-53822 kernel: wifi: ath11k: Ignore frags from uninitialized peer in dp
Summary: CVE-2023-53822 kernel: wifi: ath11k: Ignore frags from uninitialized peer in dp
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53822
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-09 22:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:06:10 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath11k: Ignore frags from uninitialized peer in dp.

When max virtual ap interfaces are configured in all the bands with
ACS and hostapd restart is done every 60s, a crash is observed at
random times.
In this certain scenario, a fragmented packet is received for
self peer, for which rx_tid and rx_frags are not initialized in
datapath. While handling this fragment, crash is observed as the
rx_frag list is uninitialised and when we walk in
ath11k_dp_rx_h_sort_frags, skb null leads to exception.

To address this, before processing received fragments we check
dp_setup_done flag is set to ensure that peer has completed its
dp peer setup for fragment queue, else ignore processing the
fragments.

Call trace:
  ath11k_dp_process_rx_err+0x550/0x1084 [ath11k]
  ath11k_dp_service_srng+0x70/0x370 [ath11k]
  0xffffffc009693a04
  __napi_poll+0x30/0xa4
  net_rx_action+0x118/0x270
  __do_softirq+0x10c/0x244
  irq_exit+0x64/0xb4
  __handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xac
  gic_handle_irq+0x74/0xbc
  el1_irq+0xf0/0x1c0
  arch_cpu_idle+0x10/0x18
  do_idle+0x104/0x248
  cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x64
  rest_init+0xd0/0xdc
  arch_call_rest_init+0xc/0x14
  start_kernel+0x480/0x4b8
  Code: f9400281 f94066a2 91405021 b94a0023 (f9406401)

Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1


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