Improper Locking Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

cfg80211: fix management registrations locking

The management registrations locking was broken, the list was locked for each wdev, but cfg80211_mgmt_registrations_update() iterated it without holding all the correct spinlocks, causing list corruption.

Rather than trying to fix it with fine-grained locking, just move the lock to the wiphy/rdev (still need the list on each wdev), we already need to hold the wdev lock to change it, so there's no contention on the lock in any case. This trivially fixes the bug since we hold one wdev's lock already, and now will hold the lock that protects all lists.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47494
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09b1d5dc6ce1c9151777f6c4e128a59457704c97
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c897f39b71fe68f90599f6a45b5f7bf5618420e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c22227e39c7a0b4dab55617ee8d34d171fab8d4