[lvc-project] [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for scanning

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 12:47 +0300, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> On 3/27/24 00:08, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
> > 
> > The rate mask is intended for use during operation, and
> > can be set to only have masks for the currently active
> > band. As such, it cannot be used for scanning which can
> > be on other bands as well.
> > 
> > Simply ignore the rate masks during scanning to avoid
> > warnings from incorrect settings.
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+fdc5123366fb9c3fdc6d at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fdc5123366fb9c3fdc6d
> > Co-developed-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov at yandex.ru>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov at yandex.ru>
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
> 
> Ugh. Fedor has reported (and I have confirmed) that this still may be
> reproduced with https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproC&x=12a8fd7f680000
> as:
> 
> [   40.293787][ T5149] no supported rates for sta 08:02:11:00:00:01 (0xf, band 0) in rate_mask 0xfff with flags 0x10
> [   40.294789][ T5149] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5149 at net/mac80211/rate.c:380 __rate_control_send_low+0x6af/0x810
> [   40.295624][ T5149] Modules linked in:
> [   40.296369][ T5149] CPU: 1 PID: 5149 Comm: repro3 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-00179-g46ad21a6b2e3 #1
> [   40.296918][ T5149] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014
> [   40.297534][ T5149] RIP: 0010:__rate_control_send_low+0x6af/0x810
> [   40.297946][ T5149] Code: 8b ac a8 d4 00 00 00 e8 df 4d 4f f7 44 8b 44 24 04 45 89 f9 89 d9 48 8b 74 24 18 89 ea 48 c7 c7 60 68 4e 8c e8 62 a0 11 f7 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 e9 1f fd ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 28 
> e8 ce 16 ab f7 e9 13 fc
> [   40.299218][ T5149] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000350ed40 EFLAGS: 00010282
> [   40.299624][ T5149] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8150f9b9
> [   40.300192][ T5149] RDX: ffff88810b509cc0 RSI: ffffffff8150f9c6 RDI: 0000000000000001
> [   40.300743][ T5149] RBP: 000000000000000f R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
> [   40.301291][ T5149] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: ffff88801985f228
> [   40.301812][ T5149] R13: ffff888107edb088 R14: 000000000000000c R15: 0000000000000010
> [   40.302335][ T5149] FS:  00007f16474fe740(0000) GS:ffff888135c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [   40.302945][ T5149] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [   40.303385][ T5149] CR2: 00007f16474ff0e8 CR3: 0000000109dc0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> [   40.303957][ T5149] Call Trace:
> [   40.304221][ T5149]  <TASK>
> [   40.308220][ T5149]  rate_control_send_low+0x116/0x7e0
> [   40.308786][ T5149]  rate_control_get_rate+0x1be/0x590
> [   40.309153][ T5149]  ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl+0xaa1/0x1a50
> [   40.310581][ T5149]  invoke_tx_handlers_late+0x133b/0x2ae0
> [   40.312476][ T5149]  ieee80211_tx+0x306/0x420
> [   40.314290][ T5149]  ieee80211_xmit+0x30e/0x3e0
> [   40.314651][ T5149]  __ieee80211_tx_skb_tid_band+0x29b/0x700
> [   40.315090][ T5149]  ieee80211_tx_skb_tid+0x176/0x4f0
> [   40.315483][ T5149]  ieee80211_mgmt_tx+0x129a/0x2160
> [   40.315868][ T5149]  cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx+0x910/0x1570
> [   40.316277][ T5149]  nl80211_tx_mgmt+0x7ad/0xcf0
> [   40.317822][ T5149]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x205/0x2f0
> [   40.319083][ T5149]  genl_rcv_msg+0x56c/0x810
> [   40.321628][ T5149]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x16e/0x440
> [   40.324076][ T5149]  genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
> [   40.324359][ T5149]  netlink_unicast+0x545/0x820
> [   40.325810][ T5149]  netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70
> [   40.327175][ T5149]  ____sys_sendmsg+0xacf/0xca0
> [   40.328673][ T5149]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0
> [   40.330261][ T5149]  __sys_sendmsg+0x117/0x1f0
> [   40.330761][ T5149]  do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x260
> [   40.331047][ T5149]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75
> 
> Note that the backtrace is different and this
> one comes from MLME rather than scanning.
> 

Yeah, that's not a huge surprise. I'll have to check where this comes
from, but chances are also there we shouldn't use the rate mask for all
the same reasons outlined previously for scanning.

johannes