vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38290: kernel: wifi: ath12k: fix node corruption in ar->arvifs list

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Added
Jul 14, 2025
Modified
Jul 15, 2025

Description

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

wifi: ath12k: fix node corruption in ar->arvifs list

In current WLAN recovery code flow, ath12k_core_halt() only reinitializes
the "arvifs" list head. This will cause the list node immediately following
the list head to become an invalid list node. Because the prev of that node
still points to the list head "arvifs", but the next of the list head
"arvifs" no longer points to that list node.

When a WLAN recovery occurs during the execution of a vif removal, and it
happens before the spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock) in
ath12k_mac_vdev_delete(), list_del() will detect the previously mentioned
situation, thereby triggering a kernel panic.

The fix is to remove and reinitialize all vif list nodes from the list head
"arvifs" during WLAN halt. The reinitialization is to make the list nodes
valid, ensuring that the list_del() in ath12k_mac_vdev_delete() can execute
normally.

Call trace:
__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xd4/0x100 (P)
ath12k_mac_remove_link_interface.isra.0+0xf8/0x2e4 [ath12k]
ath12k_scan_vdev_clean_work+0x40/0x164 [ath12k]
cfg80211_wiphy_work+0xfc/0x100
process_one_work+0x164/0x2d0
worker_thread+0x254/0x380
kthread+0xfc/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

The change is mostly copied from the ath11k patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
NEW

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