CVE-2024-46760

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

wifi: rtw88: usb: schedule rx work after everything is set up

Right now it's possible to hit NULL pointer dereference in
rtw_rx_fill_rx_status on hw object and/or its fields because
initialization routine can start getting USB replies before
rtw_dev is fully setup.

The stack trace looks like this:

rtw_rx_fill_rx_status
rtw8821c_query_rx_desc
rtw_usb_rx_handler
...
queue_work
rtw_usb_read_port_complete
...
usb_submit_urb
rtw_usb_rx_resubmit
rtw_usb_init_rx
rtw_usb_probe

So while we do the async stuff rtw_usb_probe continues and calls
rtw_register_hw, which does all kinds of initialization (e.g.
via ieee80211_register_hw) that rtw_rx_fill_rx_status relies on.

Fix this by moving the first usb_submit_urb after everything
is set up.

For me, this bug manifested as:
[    8.893177] rtw_8821cu 1-1:1.2: band wrong, packet dropped
[    8.910904] rtw_8821cu 1-1:1.2: hw->conf.chandef.chan NULL in rtw_rx_fill_rx_status
because I'm using Larry's backport of rtw88 driver with the NULL
checks in rtw_rx_fill_rx_status.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
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5.5 MEDIUM
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-6.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
Fixed 6.8.0-1017.18~22.04.1
released
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi
oracular
not-affected
noble
Fixed 6.8.0-1016.18
released
jammy
not-affected
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-5.4
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
not-affected
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-realtime
oracular
dne
noble
Fixed 6.8.0-2015.16
released
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi2
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-realtime
oracular
not-affected
noble
Fixed 6.8.1-1013.14
released
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv
oracular
not-affected
noble
Fixed 6.8.0-50.51.1
released
jammy
ignored
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.11
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.15
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.19
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
Fixed 6.8.0-50.51.1~22.04.1
released
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-5.19
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.2
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-xilinx-zynqmp
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne