linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38606: wifi: ath12k: Avoid accessing uninitialized arvif->ar during beacon miss

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Message-ID: <2025081922-CVE-2025-38606-0026@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:18:52 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38606: wifi: ath12k: Avoid accessing uninitialized arvif->ar during beacon miss

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

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

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

wifi: ath12k: Avoid accessing uninitialized arvif->ar during beacon miss

During beacon miss handling, ath12k driver iterates over active virtual
interfaces (vifs) and attempts to access the radio object (ar) via
arvif->deflink->ar.

However, after commit aa80f12f3bed ("wifi: ath12k: defer vdev creation for
MLO"), arvif is linked to a radio only after vdev creation, typically when
a channel is assigned or a scan is requested.
For P2P capable devices, a default P2P interface is created by
wpa_supplicant along with regular station interfaces, these serve as dummy
interfaces for P2P-capable stations, lack an associated netdev and initiate
frequent scans to discover neighbor p2p devices. When a scan is initiated
on such P2P vifs, driver selects destination radio (ar) based on scan
frequency, creates a scan vdev, and attaches arvif to the radio. Once the
scan completes or is aborted, the scan vdev is deleted, detaching arvif
from the radio and leaving arvif->ar uninitialized.

While handling beacon miss for station interfaces, P2P interface is also
encountered in the vif iteration and ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss_iter()
tries to dereference the uninitialized arvif->deflink->ar.

Fix this by verifying that vdev is created for the arvif before accessing
its ar during beacon miss handling and similar vif iterator callbacks.

==========================================================================
 wlp6s0: detected beacon loss from AP (missed 7 beacons) - probing
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]

 CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-wt-ath+ #2 PREEMPT(full)
 RIP: 0010:ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss_iter+0xb5/0x1a0 [ath12k]
 Call Trace:
  __iterate_interfaces+0x11a/0x410 [mac80211]
  ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x61/0x140 [mac80211]
  ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss+0xa1/0xf0 [ath12k]
  ath12k_roam_event+0x393/0x560 [ath12k]
  ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x1486/0x28c0 [ath12k]
  ath12k_htc_process_trailer.isra.0+0x2fb/0x620 [ath12k]
  ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x448/0x830 [ath12k]
  ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x549/0x9e0 [ath12k]
  ath12k_ce_per_engine_service+0xbe/0xf0 [ath12k]
  ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x69/0x120 [ath12k]
  process_one_work+0xe3a/0x1430

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00284.1-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38606 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit aa80f12f3bedc2d73e4cc43554aee44c277cc938 and fixed in 6.15.10 with commit 9b861dfc5c07defd0191fd3e7288a3179cd9a02e
	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit aa80f12f3bedc2d73e4cc43554aee44c277cc938 and fixed in 6.16.1 with commit 1259b6da8303f70fef6ed4aef8ae3dedfecb0f27
	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit aa80f12f3bedc2d73e4cc43554aee44c277cc938 and fixed in 6.17-rc1 with commit 36670b67de18f1e5d34900c5d2ac60a8970c293c

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-2025-38606
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/mac.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/p2p.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/9b861dfc5c07defd0191fd3e7288a3179cd9a02e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1259b6da8303f70fef6ed4aef8ae3dedfecb0f27
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36670b67de18f1e5d34900c5d2ac60a8970c293c