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Message-ID: <2025071012-CVE-2025-38293-8e77@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:42:34 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38293: wifi: ath11k: fix node corruption in ar->arvifs list
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: fix node corruption in ar->arvifs list
In current WLAN recovery code flow, ath11k_core_halt() only
reinitializes the "arvifs" list head. This will cause the
list node immediately following the list head to become an
invalid list node. Because the prev of that node still points
to the list head "arvifs", but the next of the list head "arvifs"
no longer points to that list node.
When a WLAN recovery occurs during the execution of a vif
removal, and it happens before the spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock)
in ath11k_mac_op_remove_interface(), list_del() will detect the
previously mentioned situation, thereby triggering a kernel panic.
The fix is to remove and reinitialize all vif list nodes from the
list head "arvifs" during WLAN halt. The reinitialization is to make
the list nodes valid, ensuring that the list_del() in
ath11k_mac_op_remove_interface() can execute normally.
Call trace:
__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xb8/0xd0
ath11k_mac_op_remove_interface+0xb0/0x27c [ath11k]
drv_remove_interface+0x48/0x194 [mac80211]
ieee80211_do_stop+0x6e0/0x844 [mac80211]
ieee80211_stop+0x44/0x17c [mac80211]
__dev_close_many+0xac/0x150
__dev_change_flags+0x194/0x234
dev_change_flags+0x24/0x6c
devinet_ioctl+0x3a0/0x670
inet_ioctl+0x200/0x248
sock_do_ioctl+0x60/0x118
sock_ioctl+0x274/0x35c
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0xf0
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
...
Tested-on: QCA6698AQ hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-04591-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38293 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 5.10.239 with commit 6c139015b597e570dd5962934e9f9a2f4cc8ef48
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 5.15.186 with commit f9507cf2dd0e1ed5028c0e8240da6fe5fd3110d3
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 6.1.142 with commit b0974ed82e6ad5ff246fd90a5b14f3e7be4f2924
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 6.6.94 with commit f50ba7e7b607f2d00618799312e7fdb76a1ff48e
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 6.12.34 with commit f5d77d0d41ea7a204d47288d0cf0404a52b5890e
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 6.15.3 with commit 6d6cb27fe146061f2512e904618f5e005bb7bb6a
Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d and fixed in 6.16-rc1 with commit 31e98e277ae47f56632e4d663b1d4fd12ba33ea8
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-2025-38293
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:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/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/6c139015b597e570dd5962934e9f9a2f4cc8ef48
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9507cf2dd0e1ed5028c0e8240da6fe5fd3110d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0974ed82e6ad5ff246fd90a5b14f3e7be4f2924
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f50ba7e7b607f2d00618799312e7fdb76a1ff48e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5d77d0d41ea7a204d47288d0cf0404a52b5890e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6cb27fe146061f2512e904618f5e005bb7bb6a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31e98e277ae47f56632e4d663b1d4fd12ba33ea8
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