CVE-2022-49309 (GCVE-0-2022-49309)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:10 – Updated: 2026-08-12 23:58
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Title
drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback() There is a deadlock in rtw_surveydone_event_callback(), which is shown below: (Thread 1) | (Thread 2) | _set_timer() rtw_surveydone_event_callback()| mod_timer() spin_lock_bh() //(1) | (wait a time) ... | rtw_scan_timeout_handler() del_timer_sync() | spin_lock_bh() //(2) (wait timer to stop) | ... We hold pmlmepriv->lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler also need pmlmepriv->lock in position (2) of thread 2. As a result, rtw_surveydone_event_callback() will block forever. This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of spin_lock_bh(), which could let timer handler to obtain the needed lock. What`s more, we change spin_lock_bh() in rtw_scan_timeout_handler() to spin_lock_irq(). Otherwise, spin_lock_bh() will also cause deadlock() in timer handler.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fb127a61c9d8dfd9b370ee173344d01711f3c698 , < c84e5c819600ee0628f61b33d145258ae0f3d7a7 (git)
Affected: fb127a61c9d8dfd9b370ee173344d01711f3c698 , < f89f6c3ebf69623b8ea48200bd690e9e210335a1 (git)
Affected: fb127a61c9d8dfd9b370ee173344d01711f3c698 , < ce129d3efd181da5fd56f4360cc8827122afa67e (git)
Affected: fb127a61c9d8dfd9b370ee173344d01711f3c698 , < 2c41f5c341853f84b7bc2f32605d4e2782e8c279 (git)
Affected: fb127a61c9d8dfd9b370ee173344d01711f3c698 , < cc7ad0d77b51c872d629bcd98aea463a3c4109e7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.237 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.47 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.15 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.4 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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