linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-22119: wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy

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Message-ID: <2025041627-CVE-2025-22119-07ea@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:13:30 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-22119: wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails

Description
===========

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

wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails

syzbort reported a uninitialize wiphy_work_lock in cfg80211_dev_free. [1]

After rfkill allocation fails, the wiphy release process will be performed,
which will cause cfg80211_dev_free to access the uninitialized wiphy_work
related data.

Move the initialization of wiphy_work to before rfkill initialization to
avoid this issue.

[1]
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5935 Comm: syz-executor550 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc6-syzkaller-00103-g4003c9e78778 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 assign_lock_key kernel/locking/lockdep.c:983 [inline]
 register_lock_class+0xc39/0x1240 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1297
 __lock_acquire+0x135/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5103
 lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 cfg80211_dev_free+0x30/0x3d0 net/wireless/core.c:1196
 device_release+0xa1/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2568
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x1e4/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
 put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3774
 wiphy_free net/wireless/core.c:1224 [inline]
 wiphy_new_nm+0x1c1f/0x2160 net/wireless/core.c:562
 ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm+0x1b7a/0x2260 net/mac80211/main.c:835
 mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x1d6/0x54e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:5185
 hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xb42/0x12b0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:6242
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x202/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x565/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2533
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1882
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:733 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2573
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2627
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2659
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

Close: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-22119 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit 72d520476a2fab6f3489e8388ab524985d6c4b90 and fixed in 6.14.2 with commit 2617f60c3613ef105b8db2d514d2cac2a1836f7d
	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit 72d520476a2fab6f3489e8388ab524985d6c4b90 and fixed in 6.15-rc1 with commit fc88dee89d7b63eeb17699393eb659aadf9d9b7c
	Issue introduced in 6.1.132 with commit 0272d4af7f92997541d8bbf4c51918b93ded6ee2
	Issue introduced in 6.6.84 with commit 75d262ad3c36d52852d764588fcd887f0fcd9138
	Issue introduced in 6.12.20 with commit a5158d67bff06cb6fea31be39aeb319fd908ed8e
	Issue introduced in 6.13.8 with commit dea22de162058216a90f2706f0d0b36f0ff309fd

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-22119
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/wireless/core.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2617f60c3613ef105b8db2d514d2cac2a1836f7d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc88dee89d7b63eeb17699393eb659aadf9d9b7c