linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54141: wifi: ath11k: Add missing hw_ops->get_ring

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Message-ID: <2025122423-CVE-2023-54141-86e5@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:07:38 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54141: wifi: ath11k: Add missing hw_ops->get_ring_selector() for IPQ5018

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

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

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

wifi: ath11k: Add missing hw_ops->get_ring_selector() for IPQ5018

During sending data after clients connected, hw_ops->get_ring_selector()
will be called. But for IPQ5018, this member isn't set, and the
following NULL pointer exception will be occurred:

	[   38.840478] 8<--- cut here ---
	[   38.840517] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
	...
	[   38.923161] PC is at 0x0
	[   38.927930] LR is at ath11k_dp_tx+0x70/0x730 [ath11k]
	...
	[   39.063264] Process hostapd (pid: 1034, stack limit = 0x801ceb3d)
	[   39.068994] Stack: (0x856a9a68 to 0x856aa000)
	...
	[   39.438467] [<7f323804>] (ath11k_dp_tx [ath11k]) from [<7f314e6c>] (ath11k_mac_op_tx+0x80/0x190 [ath11k])
	[   39.446607] [<7f314e6c>] (ath11k_mac_op_tx [ath11k]) from [<7f17dbe0>] (ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue+0x7c/0xc0 [mac80211])
	[   39.456162] [<7f17dbe0>] (ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue [mac80211]) from [<7f174450>] (ieee80211_probereq_get+0x584/0x704 [mac80211])
	[   39.467443] [<7f174450>] (ieee80211_probereq_get [mac80211]) from [<7f178c40>] (ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb+0x1f8/0x248 [mac80211])
	[   39.479334] [<7f178c40>] (ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb [mac80211]) from [<7f179e28>] (__ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x32c/0x3d4 [mac80211])
	[   39.491053] [<7f179e28>] (__ieee80211_subif_start_xmit [mac80211]) from [<7f17af08>] (ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x19c/0x288 [mac80211])
	[   39.502946] [<7f17af08>] (ieee80211_tx_control_port [mac80211]) from [<7f0fc704>] (nl80211_tx_control_port+0x174/0x1d4 [cfg80211])
	[   39.515017] [<7f0fc704>] (nl80211_tx_control_port [cfg80211]) from [<808ceac4>] (genl_rcv_msg+0x154/0x340)
	[   39.526814] [<808ceac4>] (genl_rcv_msg) from [<808cdb74>] (netlink_rcv_skb+0xb8/0x11c)
	[   39.536446] [<808cdb74>] (netlink_rcv_skb) from [<808ce1d0>] (genl_rcv+0x28/0x34)
	[   39.544344] [<808ce1d0>] (genl_rcv) from [<808cd234>] (netlink_unicast+0x174/0x274)
	[   39.551895] [<808cd234>] (netlink_unicast) from [<808cd510>] (netlink_sendmsg+0x1dc/0x440)
	[   39.559362] [<808cd510>] (netlink_sendmsg) from [<808596e0>] (____sys_sendmsg+0x1a8/0x1fc)
	[   39.567697] [<808596e0>] (____sys_sendmsg) from [<8085b1a8>] (___sys_sendmsg+0xa4/0xdc)
	[   39.575941] [<8085b1a8>] (___sys_sendmsg) from [<8085b310>] (sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x74)
	[   39.583841] [<8085b310>] (sys_sendmsg) from [<80300060>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x40)
	...
	[   39.620734] Code: bad PC value
	[   39.625869] ---[ end trace 8aef983ad3cbc032 ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54141 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit ba60f2793d3a37a00da14bb56a26558a902d2831 and fixed in 6.3.13 with commit d1992d72a359732f143cc962917104d193705da7
	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit ba60f2793d3a37a00da14bb56a26558a902d2831 and fixed in 6.4.4 with commit c36289e3c5e83286974ef68c20c821fd5b63801c
	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit ba60f2793d3a37a00da14bb56a26558a902d2831 and fixed in 6.5 with commit ce282d8de71f07f0056ea319541141152c65f552

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-2023-54141
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/hw.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/d1992d72a359732f143cc962917104d193705da7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c36289e3c5e83286974ef68c20c821fd5b63801c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce282d8de71f07f0056ea319541141152c65f552