mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47396
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling Thomas explained in https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mtoeb4hb.ffs@tglx that our handling of the hrtimer here is wrong: If the timer fires late (e.g. due to vCPU scheduling, as reported by Dmitry/syzbot) then it tries to actually rearm the timer at the next deadline, which might be in the past already: 1 2 3 N N+1 | | | ... | | ^ intended to fire here (1) ^ next deadline here (2) ^ actually fired here The next time it fires, it's later, but will still try to schedule for the next deadline (now 3), etc. until it catches up with N, but that might take a long time, causing stalls etc. Now, all of this is simulation, so we just have to fix it, but note that the behaviour is wrong even per spec, since there's no value then in sending all those beacons unaligned - they should be aligned to the TBTT (1, 2, 3, ... in the picture), and if we're a bit (or a lot) late, then just resume at that point. Therefore, change the code to use hrtimer_forward_now() which will ensure that the next firing of the timer would be at N+1 (in the picture), i.e. the next interval point after the current time.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 01e59e467ecf976c782eecd4dc99644802cc60e2 < 9bee85de2c8155388c09a2e1530a243ec1c96f05 ; affected 01e59e467ecf976c782eecd4dc99644802cc60e2 < 2c204cf594df3b9468368dc9d0b24d482d93cda7 ; affected 01e59e467ecf976c782eecd4dc99644802cc60e2 < ed2adf69e29848d1eb9df99633dde655421c92ed ; affected 01e59e467ecf976c782eecd4dc99644802cc60e2 < 313bbd1990b6ddfdaa7da098d0c56b098a833572
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.9 ; unaffected 0 < 3.9 ; unaffected 5.4.151 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.71 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.14.10 ≤ 5.14.* ; unaffected 5.15 ≤ *

Sources

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