CVE-2025-38647

wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi

published August 22, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi

The following assertion is triggered on the rtw89 driver startup. It

looks meaningless to hold wiphy lock on the early init stage so drop the

assertion.

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 629 at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/sar.c:502 rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core]

CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 629 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.15.0+ #29 PREEMPT(lazy)

Hardware name: LENOVO 21D0/LNVNB161216, BIOS J6CN50WW 09/27/2024

RIP: 0010:rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core]

Call Trace:

<TASK>

rtw89_sar_init+0x68/0x2c0 [rtw89_core]

rtw89_core_init+0x188e/0x1e50 [rtw89_core]

rtw89_pci_probe+0x530/0xb50 [rtw89_pci]

local_pci_probe+0xd9/0x190

pci_call_probe+0x183/0x540

pci_device_probe+0x171/0x2c0

really_probe+0x1e1/0x890

__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x390

driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120

__driver_attach+0x1a0/0x530

bus_for_each_dev+0x10b/0x190

bus_add_driver+0x2eb/0x540

driver_register+0x1a3/0x3a0

do_one_initcall+0xd5/0x450

do_init_module+0x2cc/0x8f0

init_module_from_file+0xe1/0x150

idempotent_init_module+0x226/0x760

__x64_sys_finit_module+0xcd/0x150

do_syscall_64+0x94/0x380

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00140 · 3.0th percentile
Published
2025-08-22T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 16:00Z
    wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi
    cvelistv5