linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38284: wifi: rtw89: pci: configure manual DAC mode via PCI config API only

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Message-ID: <2025071010-CVE-2025-38284-1574@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:42:25 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38284: wifi: rtw89: pci: configure manual DAC mode via PCI config API only

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

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

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

wifi: rtw89: pci: configure manual DAC mode via PCI config API only

To support 36-bit DMA, configure chip proprietary bit via PCI config API
or chip DBI interface. However, the PCI device mmap isn't set yet and
the DBI is also inaccessible via mmap, so only if the bit can be accessible
via PCI config API, chip can support 36-bit DMA. Otherwise, fallback to
32-bit DMA.

With NULL mmap address, kernel throws trace:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001090
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 71 Comm: irq/26-pciehp Tainted: G           OE      6.14.2-061402-generic #202504101348
  Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
  RIP: 0010:rtw89_pci_ops_write16+0x12/0x30 [rtw89_pci]
  RSP: 0018:ffffb0ffc0acf9d8 EFLAGS: 00010206
  RAX: ffffffffc158f9c0 RBX: ffff94865e702020 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000718 RSI: 0000000000001090 RDI: ffff94865e702020
  RBP: ffffb0ffc0acf9d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000015
  R13: 0000000000000719 R14: ffffb0ffc0acfa1f R15: ffffffffc1813060
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9486f3480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000001090 CR3: 0000000090440001 CR4: 00000000000626f0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   rtw89_pci_read_config_byte+0x6d/0x120 [rtw89_pci]
   rtw89_pci_cfg_dac+0x5b/0xb0 [rtw89_pci]
   rtw89_pci_probe+0xa96/0xbd0 [rtw89_pci]
   ? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10
   local_pci_probe+0x47/0xa0
   pci_call_probe+0x5d/0x190
   pci_device_probe+0xa7/0x160
   really_probe+0xf9/0x370
   ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x55/0xa0
   __driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x140
   driver_probe_device+0x24/0xd0
   __device_attach_driver+0xcd/0x170
   bus_for_each_drv+0x99/0x100
   __device_attach+0xb4/0x1d0
   device_attach+0x10/0x20
   pci_bus_add_device+0x59/0x90
   pci_bus_add_devices+0x31/0x80
   pciehp_configure_device+0xaa/0x170
   pciehp_enable_slot+0xd6/0x240
   pciehp_handle_presence_or_link_change+0xf1/0x180
   pciehp_ist+0x162/0x1c0
   irq_thread_fn+0x24/0x70
   irq_thread+0xef/0x1c0
   ? __pfx_irq_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx_irq_thread_dtor+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx_irq_thread+0x10/0x10
   kthread+0xfc/0x230
   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
   ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
   </TASK>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38284 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 1fd4b3fe52efd5ad1647966f619c10988e7a4457 and fixed in 6.15.3 with commit e1e0f046041474004dc6ebce5ce1d3e86556291d
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 1fd4b3fe52efd5ad1647966f619c10988e7a4457 and fixed in 6.16-rc1 with commit a70cf04b08f44f41bce14659aa7012674b15d9de

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-2025-38284
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/realtek/rtw89/pci.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/e1e0f046041474004dc6ebce5ce1d3e86556291d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a70cf04b08f44f41bce14659aa7012674b15d9de