[PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix tid_tx use-after-free on BA session stop
From: Zhao Li
Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 07:26:56 EST
ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb() hands tid_tx to kfree_rcu() through
ieee80211_remove_tid_tx(), and then reads tid_tx->ndp after dropping
sta->lock:
ieee80211_remove_tid_tx(sta, tid); /* kfree_rcu(tid_tx, rcu_head) */
...
spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
if (start_txq)
ieee80211_agg_start_txq(sta, tid, false);
if (send_delba)
ieee80211_send_delba(..., tid_tx->ndp);
That read is not covered by an RCU read-side critical section, and it runs
in preemptible process context: both callers hold the wiphy mutex, reaching
it either from the ieee80211_ba_session_work() wiphy work or from
ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions() during station teardown.
Softirqs can run in that window too, both from the local_bh_enable() that
ends ieee80211_agg_start_txq() and from any interrupt exit, so the RCU
callback can free tid_tx before the read.
Driving the function from a test module with the grace period forced into
that window, KASAN reports the read, and the free arrives on the ordinary
RCU softirq path:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb+0x3cd/0x400
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888002b9f52e by task kworker/0:1/10
[...]
Freed by task 57:
__kasan_slab_free+0x47/0x70
__rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x70/0x250
rcu_free_sheaf_nobarn+0x18/0x40
rcu_core+0x426/0x1310
handle_softirqs+0x144/0x590
__irq_exit_rcu+0xea/0x150
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x80
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
send_delba is only set when tx_stop is set, which happens for
AGG_STOP_LOCAL_REQUEST alone, so this is reached on local teardown -
session idle timeout, PTK rekey, suspend, HW reconfig - and not from a
peer's DELBA.
Read ndp into a local before the session is freed, while sta->lock is still
held. tid_tx->ndp has a single writer, in
ieee80211_tx_ba_session_handle_start(), which cannot run concurrently here:
both paths are serialised by the wiphy mutex, and the session is already
marked HT_AGG_STATE_STOPPING at this point. tid_tx->ndp is also the only
tid_tx dereference left after ieee80211_remove_tid_tx() in this function.
Fixes: 98acd4c1d9f7 ("wifi: mac80211: add support for NDP ADDBA/DELBA for S1G")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Assisted-by: Kimi:K3
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zhao Li <enderaoelyther@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/agg-tx.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
index 4833b46770b6..a75be7f37748 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
@@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct sta_info *sta, int tid,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;
bool send_delba = false;
bool start_txq = false;
+ bool ndp = false;
ht_dbg(sdata, "Stopping Tx BA session for %pM tid %d\n",
sta->sta.addr, tid);
@@ -933,6 +934,8 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct sta_info *sta, int tid,
if (tid_tx->stop_initiator == WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR && tid_tx->tx_stop)
send_delba = true;
+ /* ieee80211_remove_tid_tx() hands tid_tx to kfree_rcu() */
+ ndp = tid_tx->ndp;
ieee80211_remove_tid_tx(sta, tid);
start_txq = true;
@@ -946,7 +949,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct sta_info *sta, int tid,
ieee80211_send_delba(sdata, sta->sta.addr, tid,
WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR,
WLAN_REASON_QSTA_NOT_USE,
- tid_tx->ndp);
+ ndp);
}
void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe(struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)