CVE-2025-37794

wifi: mac80211: Purge vif txq in ieee80211_do_stop()

published May 1, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: mac80211: Purge vif txq in ieee80211_do_stop()

After ieee80211_do_stop() SKB from vif's txq could still be processed.

Indeed another concurrent vif schedule_and_wake_txq call could cause

those packets to be dequeued (see ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue())

without checking the sdata current state.

Because vif.drv_priv is now cleared in this function, this could lead to

driver crash.

For example in ath12k, ahvif is store in vif.drv_priv. Thus if

ath12k_mac_op_tx() is called after ieee80211_do_stop(), ahvif->ah can be

NULL, leading the ath12k_warn(ahvif->ah,...) call in this function to

trigger the NULL deref below.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfffffc000000001

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]

batman_adv: bat0: Interface deactivated: brbh1337

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, ISS2 = 0x00000000

CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0

GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0

[dfffffc000000001] address between user and kernel address ranges

Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 978 Comm: lbd Not tainted 6.13.0-g633f875b8f1e #114

Hardware name: HW (DT)

pstate: 10000005 (nzcV daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

pc : ath12k_mac_op_tx+0x6cc/0x29b8 [ath12k]

lr : ath12k_mac_op_tx+0x174/0x29b8 [ath12k]

sp : ffffffc086ace450

x29: ffffffc086ace450 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 1ffffff810d59ca4

x26: ffffff801d05f7c0 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 000000004000001e

x23: ffffff8009ce4926 x22: ffffff801f9c0800 x21: ffffff801d05f7f0

x20: ffffff8034a19f40 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffff801f9c0958

x17: ffffff800bc0a504 x16: dfffffc000000000 x15: ffffffc086ace4f8

x14: ffffff801d05f83c x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffffffb003a0bf03

x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffffffb003a0bf02 x9 : ffffff8034a19f40

x8 : ffffff801d05f818 x7 : 1ffffff0069433dc x6 : ffffff8034a19ee0

x5 : ffffff801d05f7f0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000001

x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : dfffffc000000000 x0 : 0000000000000008

Call trace:

ath12k_mac_op_tx+0x6cc/0x29b8 [ath12k] (P)

ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue+0x16c/0x260

ieee80211_queue_skb+0xeec/0x1d20

ieee80211_tx+0x200/0x2c8

ieee80211_xmit+0x22c/0x338

__ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x7e8/0xc60

ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xc4/0xee0

__ieee80211_subif_start_xmit_8023.isra.0+0x854/0x17a0

ieee80211_subif_start_xmit_8023+0x124/0x488

dev_hard_start_xmit+0x160/0x5a8

__dev_queue_xmit+0x6f8/0x3120

br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x120/0x4a8

__br_forward+0xe4/0x2b0

deliver_clone+0x5c/0xd0

br_flood+0x398/0x580

br_dev_xmit+0x454/0x9f8

dev_hard_start_xmit+0x160/0x5a8

__dev_queue_xmit+0x6f8/0x3120

ip6_finish_output2+0xc28/0x1b60

__ip6_finish_output+0x38c/0x638

ip6_output+0x1b4/0x338

ip6_local_out+0x7c/0xa8

ip6_send_skb+0x7c/0x1b0

ip6_push_pending_frames+0x94/0xd0

rawv6_sendmsg+0x1a98/0x2898

inet_sendmsg+0x94/0xe0

__sys_sendto+0x1e4/0x308

__arm64_sys_sendto+0xc4/0x140

do_el0_svc+0x110/0x280

el0_svc+0x20/0x60

el0t_64_sync_handler+0x104/0x138

el0t_64_sync+0x154/0x158

To avoid that, empty vif's txq at ieee80211_do_stop() so no packet could

be dequeued after ieee80211_do_stop() (new packets cannot be queued

because SDATA_STATE_RUNNING is cleared at this point).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00201 · 9.5th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T13:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 13:07Z
    wifi: mac80211: Purge vif txq in ieee80211_do_stop()
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