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CVE-2022-48784

cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction

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

cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction

My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where
the exact same deadlock (see the original commit referenced
below) can still happen if cfg80211_destroy_ifaces() already
runs while nl80211_netlink_notify() is still marking some
interfaces as nl_owner_dead.

The race happens because we have two loops here - first we
dev_close() all the netdevs, and then we destroy them. If we
also have two netdevs (first one need only be a wdev though)
then we can find one during the first iteration, close it,
and go to the second iteration -- but then find two, and try
to destroy also the one we didn't close yet.

Fix this by only iterating once.

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  • 2024-06-20 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-07-16 CVE Published
  • 2024-07-17 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-12-19 CVE Updated
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>= 5.13 < 5.16.11
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Linux
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Linux
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5.12.1
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