linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38450: wifi: mt76: mt7925: prevent NULL pointer dereference in mt7925_sta_set_decap

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Message-ID: <2025072504-CVE-2025-38450-a59f@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:28:12 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38450: wifi: mt76: mt7925: prevent NULL pointer dereference in mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload()

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

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

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

wifi: mt76: mt7925: prevent NULL pointer dereference in mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload()

Add a NULL check for msta->vif before accessing its members to prevent
a kernel panic in AP mode deployment. This also fix the issue reported
in [1].

The crash occurs when this function is triggered before the station is
fully initialized. The call trace shows a page fault at
mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload() due to accessing resources when msta->vif
is NULL.

Fix this by adding an early return if msta->vif is NULL and also check
wcid.sta is ready. This ensures we only proceed with decap offload
configuration when the station's state is properly initialized.

[14739.655703] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffffffffffa0
[14739.811820] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 895854 Comm: hostapd Tainted: G
[14739.821394] Tainted: [C]=CRAP, [O]=OOT_MODULE
[14739.825746] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 (DT)
[14739.831577] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[14739.838538] pc : mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload+0xc0/0x1b8 [mt7925_common]
[14739.845271] lr : mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload+0x58/0x1b8 [mt7925_common]
[14739.851985] sp : ffffffc085efb500
[14739.855295] x29: ffffffc085efb500 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffffff807803a158
[14739.862436] x26: ffffff8041ececb8 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 0000000000000001
[14739.869577] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000008 x21: ffffff8041ecea88
[14739.876715] x20: ffffff8041c19ca0 x19: ffffff8078031fe0 x18: 0000000000000000
[14739.883853] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffffe2aeac1110 x15: 000000559da48080
[14739.890991] x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
[14739.898130] x11: 0a10020001008e88 x10: 0000000000001a50 x9 : ffffffe26457bfa0
[14739.905269] x8 : ffffff8042013bb0 x7 : ffffff807fb6cbf8 x6 : dead000000000100
[14739.912407] x5 : dead000000000122 x4 : ffffff80780326c8 x3 : 0000000000000000
[14739.919546] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffffff8041ececb8
[14739.926686] Call trace:
[14739.929130]  mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload+0xc0/0x1b8 [mt7925_common]
[14739.935505]  ieee80211_check_fast_rx+0x19c/0x510 [mac80211]
[14739.941344]  _sta_info_move_state+0xe4/0x510 [mac80211]
[14739.946860]  sta_info_move_state+0x1c/0x30 [mac80211]
[14739.952116]  sta_apply_auth_flags.constprop.0+0x90/0x1b0 [mac80211]
[14739.958708]  sta_apply_parameters+0x234/0x5e0 [mac80211]
[14739.964332]  ieee80211_add_station+0xdc/0x190 [mac80211]
[14739.969950]  nl80211_new_station+0x46c/0x670 [cfg80211]
[14739.975516]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xdc/0x150
[14739.980158]  genl_rcv_msg+0x218/0x298
[14739.983830]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x64/0x138
[14739.987670]  genl_rcv+0x40/0x60
[14739.990816]  netlink_unicast+0x314/0x380
[14739.994742]  netlink_sendmsg+0x198/0x3f0
[14739.998664]  __sock_sendmsg+0x64/0xc0
[14740.002324]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x260/0x298
[14740.006242]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xb4/0x110

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38450 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit b859ad65309a5f1654e8b284de582831fc88e2d8 and fixed in 6.12.39 with commit 9b50874f297fcc62adc7396f35209878e51010b0
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit b859ad65309a5f1654e8b284de582831fc88e2d8 and fixed in 6.15.7 with commit 91c3dec2453b3742e8f666957b99945edc30577f
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit b859ad65309a5f1654e8b284de582831fc88e2d8 and fixed in 6.16-rc6 with commit 35ad47c0b3da04b00b19a8b9ed5632e2f2520472

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-2025-38450
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/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.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/9b50874f297fcc62adc7396f35209878e51010b0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91c3dec2453b3742e8f666957b99945edc30577f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35ad47c0b3da04b00b19a8b9ed5632e2f2520472