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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-57991

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 9:15:13 PM

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Added Description

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

wifi: rtw89: chan: fix soft lockup in rtw89_entity_recalc_mgnt_roles()

During rtw89_entity_recalc_mgnt_roles(), there is a normalizing process
which will re-order the list if an entry with target pattern is found.
And once one is found, should have aborted the list_for_each_entry. But,
`break` just aborted the inner for-loop. The outer list_for_each_entry
still continues. Normally, only the first entry will match the target
pattern, and the re-ordering will change nothing, so there won't be
soft lockup. However, in some special cases, soft lockup would happen.

Fix it by `goto fill` to break from the list_for_each_entry.

The following is a sample of kernel log for this problem.

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 26s! [wpa_supplicant:2055]
[...]
RIP: 0010:rtw89_entity_recalc ([...] chan.c:392 chan.c:479) rtw89_core
[...]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01d2d34e9fcc9897081c3c16a666f793c8a38c58
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/223ba95fdcd3c6090e2bd51dce66abb6dd4f9df9
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4790b3e314a4814f1680a5dc552031fb199b878