linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50627: wifi: ath11k: fix monitor mode bringup crash

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Message-ID: <2025120853-CVE-2022-50627-a907@gregkh>
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2025 10:17:04 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50627: wifi: ath11k: fix monitor mode bringup crash

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

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

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

wifi: ath11k: fix monitor mode bringup crash

When the interface is brought up in monitor mode, it leads
to NULL pointer dereference crash. This crash happens when
the packet type is extracted for a SKB. This extraction
which is present in the received msdu delivery path,is
not needed for the monitor ring packets since they are
all RAW packets. Hence appending the flags with
"RX_FLAG_ONLY_MONITOR" to skip that extraction.

Observed calltrace:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000064
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000004
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
  CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000048517000
[0000000000000064] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: ath11k_pci ath11k qmi_helpers
CPU: 2 PID: 1781 Comm: napi/-271 Not tainted
6.1.0-rc5-wt-ath-656295-gef907406320c-dirty #6
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. IPQ8074/AP-HK10-C2 (DT)
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : ath11k_hw_qcn9074_rx_desc_get_decap_type+0x34/0x60 [ath11k]
lr : ath11k_hw_qcn9074_rx_desc_get_decap_type+0x5c/0x60 [ath11k]
sp : ffff80000ef5bb10
x29: ffff80000ef5bb10 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff000007baafa0
x26: ffff000014a91ed0 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff800002b77378 x22: ffff000014a91ec0 x21: ffff000006c8d600
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffff800002b77740 x18: 0000000000000006
x17: 736564203634343a x16: 656e694c20657079 x15: 0000000000000143
x14: 00000000ffffffea x13: ffff80000ef5b8b8 x12: ffff80000ef5b8c8
x11: ffff80000a591d30 x10: ffff80000a579d40 x9 : c0000000ffffefff
x8 : 0000000000000003 x7 : 0000000000017fe8 x6 : ffff80000a579ce8
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 3a35ec12ed7f8900 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000052
Call trace:
 ath11k_hw_qcn9074_rx_desc_get_decap_type+0x34/0x60 [ath11k]
 ath11k_dp_rx_deliver_msdu.isra.42+0xa4/0x3d0 [ath11k]
 ath11k_dp_rx_mon_deliver.isra.43+0x2f8/0x458 [ath11k]
 ath11k_dp_rx_process_mon_rings+0x310/0x4c0 [ath11k]
 ath11k_dp_service_srng+0x234/0x338 [ath11k]
 ath11k_pcic_ext_grp_napi_poll+0x30/0xb8 [ath11k]
 __napi_poll+0x5c/0x190
 napi_threaded_poll+0xf0/0x118
 kthread+0xf4/0x110
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50627 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.1.16 with commit d6ea1ca1d456bb661e5a9d104e69d2c261161115
	Fixed in 6.2.3 with commit 9089c3080a98f1452335e08b8014a28003a211ce
	Fixed in 6.3 with commit 950b43f8bd8a4d476d2da6d2a083a89bcd3c90d7

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-2022-50627
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/ath11k/dp_rx.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/d6ea1ca1d456bb661e5a9d104e69d2c261161115
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9089c3080a98f1452335e08b8014a28003a211ce
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/950b43f8bd8a4d476d2da6d2a083a89bcd3c90d7