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High · 7.8 CVE-2024-40979 EUVD-2024-38774GHSA-gvwx-6cpm-mjrj

wifi: ath12k: fix kernel crash during resume

Published Jul 12, 2024 · Updated Oct 3, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-6.8 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-6.8 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia-lowlatency Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-realtime-6.8 Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-riscv-6.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: fix kernel crash during resume

Currently during resume, QMI target memory is not properly handled, resulting
in kernel crash in case DMA remap is not supported:

BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u16:54 pfn:36e80
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x36e80
page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
Call Trace:
bad_page
free_page_is_bad_report
__free_pages_ok
__free_pages
dma_direct_free
dma_free_attrs
ath12k_qmi_free_target_mem_chunk
ath12k_qmi_msg_mem_request_cb

The reason is:
Once ath12k module is loaded, firmware sends memory request to host. In case
DMA remap not supported, ath12k refuses the first request due to failure in
allocating with large segment size:

ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi firmware request memory request
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 7077888
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 8454144
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi dma allocation failed (7077888 B type 1), will try later with small size
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi delays mem_request 2
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi firmware request memory request

Later firmware comes back with more but small segments and allocation
succeeds:

ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 262144
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 524288
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 4 size 65536
ath12k_pci 0000:04:00.0: qmi mem seg type 1 size 524288

Now ath12k is working. If suspend is triggered, firmware will be reloaded
during resume. As same as before, firmware requests two large segments at
first. In ath12k_qmi_msg_mem_request_cb() segment count and size are
assigned:

ab->qmi.mem_seg_count == 2
ab->qmi.target_mem[0].size == 7077888
ab->qmi.target_mem[1].size == 8454144

Then allocation failed like before and ath12k_qmi_free_target_mem_chunk()
is called to free all allocated segments. Note the first segment is skipped
because its v.addr is cleared due to allocation failure:

chunk->v.addr = dma_alloc_coherent()

Also note that this leaks that segment because it has not been freed.

While freeing the second segment, a size of 8454144 is passed to
dma_free_coherent(). However remember that this segment is allocated at
the first time firmware is loaded, before suspend. So its real size is
524288, much smaller than 8454144. As a result kernel found we are freeing
some memory which is in use and thus cras
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.3 6.6.158

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.9.7-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.9.7-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-44.44 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1015.16 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 6.8.0-1014.16 USN-7004-1, USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1010.13 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm +2 6.8.0-1012.12 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1013.14 USN-7005-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1013.14.1 USN-7005-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1011.12 USN-6999-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-44.44.1 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1015.16~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1014.16~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-45.45~22.04.1 USN-7029-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1012.12~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 USN-7005-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 +1 6.8.0-44.44.1~22.04.1 USN-7008-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2010.10 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1008.8 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1008.8~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-78.78+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +5 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +1 6.4.0-150600.8.8.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1.150600.12.6.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-docs 6.4.0-150600.23.17.3 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-syms-azure 6.4.0-150600.8.8.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-17.1.1.51 SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-9.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_1 1-150600.1.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_3 1-150600.13.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +9 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +1 6.4.0-150600.8.8.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1.150600.12.6.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-docs 6.4.0-150600.23.17.3 SUSE-SU-2024:2802-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-syms-azure 6.4.0-150600.8.8.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1

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