CVE-2023-53452

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

published October 1, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00114 · 1.4th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T11:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:42Z
    wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable
    cvelistv5