linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38291: wifi: ath12k: Prevent sending WMI commands to firmware during firmware crash

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Message-ID: <2025071011-CVE-2025-38291-25a9@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:42:32 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38291: wifi: ath12k: Prevent sending WMI commands to firmware during firmware crash

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

wifi: ath12k: Prevent sending WMI commands to firmware during firmware crash

Currently, we encounter the following kernel call trace when a firmware
crash occurs. This happens because the host sends WMI commands to the
firmware while it is in recovery, causing the commands to fail and
resulting in the kernel call trace.

Set the ATH12K_FLAG_CRASH_FLUSH and ATH12K_FLAG_RECOVERY flags when the
host driver receives the firmware crash notification from MHI. This
prevents sending WMI commands to the firmware during recovery.

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x75/0xc0
 register_lock_class+0x6be/0x7a0
 ? __lock_acquire+0x644/0x19a0
 __lock_acquire+0x95/0x19a0
 lock_acquire+0x265/0x310
 ? ath12k_ce_send+0xa2/0x210 [ath12k]
 ? find_held_lock+0x34/0xa0
 ? ath12k_ce_send+0x56/0x210 [ath12k]
 _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x33/0x70
 ? ath12k_ce_send+0xa2/0x210 [ath12k]
 ath12k_ce_send+0xa2/0x210 [ath12k]
 ath12k_htc_send+0x178/0x390 [ath12k]
 ath12k_wmi_cmd_send_nowait+0x76/0xa0 [ath12k]
 ath12k_wmi_cmd_send+0x62/0x190 [ath12k]
 ath12k_wmi_pdev_bss_chan_info_request+0x62/0xc0 [ath1
 ath12k_mac_op_get_survey+0x2be/0x310 [ath12k]
 ieee80211_dump_survey+0x99/0x240 [mac80211]
 nl80211_dump_survey+0xe7/0x470 [cfg80211]
 ? kmalloc_reserve+0x59/0xf0
 genl_dumpit+0x24/0x70
 netlink_dump+0x177/0x360
 __netlink_dump_start+0x206/0x280
 genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit.isra.22+0x8a/0xe0
 ? genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.isra.23+0xe0/0xe0
 ? genl_op_lock.part.12+0x10/0x10
 ? genl_dumpit+0x70/0x70
 genl_rcv_msg+0x1d0/0x290
 ? nl80211_del_station+0x330/0x330 [cfg80211]
 ? genl_get_cmd_both+0x50/0x50
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x4f/0x100
 genl_rcv+0x1f/0x30
 netlink_unicast+0x1b6/0x260
 netlink_sendmsg+0x31a/0x450
 __sock_sendmsg+0xa8/0xb0
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x260
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x89/0xe0
 ? local_clock_noinstr+0xb/0xc0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40
 ? kfree+0x1de/0x370
 ? __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xc0

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38291 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit a9b46dd2e483bf99fa09e6aeea7701960abaa902 and fixed in 6.15.3 with commit 2563069baf243cadc76dc64d9085606742c4b282
	Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit a9b46dd2e483bf99fa09e6aeea7701960abaa902 and fixed in 6.16-rc1 with commit e9e094a9734ea3bd4d4d117c915ccf129ac61ba1

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-2025-38291
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/ath12k/mhi.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/2563069baf243cadc76dc64d9085606742c4b282
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e094a9734ea3bd4d4d117c915ccf129ac61ba1