linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53452: wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi

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Message-ID: <2025100104-CVE-2023-53452-f6e5@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 13:42:22 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53452: wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable

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

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

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

wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable

A race condition can happen if netdev is registered, but NAPI isn't
initialized yet, and meanwhile user space starts the netdev that will
enable NAPI. Then, it hits BUG_ON():

 kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6423!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 417 Comm: iwd Not tainted 6.2.7-slab-dirty #3 eb0f5a8a9d91
 Hardware name: LENOVO 21DL/LNVNB161216, BIOS JPCN20WW(V1.06) 09/20/2022
 RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x3f/0x50
 Code: 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 f6 f6 81 89 08 00 00 02 74 0d 48 83 ...
 RSP: 0018:ffffada1414f3548 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa01425802080 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 00000000000002ff RSI: ffffada14e50c614 RDI: ffffa01425808dc0
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffffa01425808f58
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffa01423498940 R15: 0000000000000001
 FS:  00007f5577c0a740(0000) GS:ffffa0169fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007f5577a19972 CR3: 0000000125a7a000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  rtw89_pci_ops_start+0x1c/0x70 [rtw89_pci 6cbc75429515c181cbc386478d5cfb32ffc5a0f8]
  rtw89_core_start+0xbe/0x160 [rtw89_core fe07ecb874820b6d778370d4acb6ef8a37847f22]
  rtw89_ops_start+0x26/0x40 [rtw89_core fe07ecb874820b6d778370d4acb6ef8a37847f22]
  drv_start+0x42/0x100 [mac80211 c07fa22af8c3cf3f7d7ab3884ca990784d72e2d2]
  ieee80211_do_open+0x311/0x7d0 [mac80211 c07fa22af8c3cf3f7d7ab3884ca990784d72e2d2]
  ieee80211_open+0x6a/0x90 [mac80211 c07fa22af8c3cf3f7d7ab3884ca990784d72e2d2]
  __dev_open+0xe0/0x180
  __dev_change_flags+0x1da/0x250
  dev_change_flags+0x26/0x70
  do_setlink+0x37c/0x12c0
  ? ep_poll_callback+0x246/0x290
  ? __nla_validate_parse+0x61/0xd00
  ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x8f/0xd0

To fix this, follow Jonas' suggestion to switch the order of these
functions and move register netdev to be the last step of PCI probe.
Also, correct the error handling of rtw89_core_register_hw().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53452 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd and fixed in 6.1.28 with commit 39712c8aeb79691bcec8bd6ff658cde1651e0803
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd and fixed in 6.2.15 with commit aa48073c2f993e1b0c0bc66b03ae105cac0130bc
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd and fixed in 6.3.2 with commit b1b90c7df08ef385f95827ee3aee87bddd1ef5c5
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd and fixed in 6.4 with commit 47515664ecfbde11425dff121f298ae4499425c9

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-2023-53452
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/core.c
	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/39712c8aeb79691bcec8bd6ff658cde1651e0803
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa48073c2f993e1b0c0bc66b03ae105cac0130bc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1b90c7df08ef385f95827ee3aee87bddd1ef5c5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47515664ecfbde11425dff121f298ae4499425c9