wifi: mt76: use kfree_rcu for offchannel link in mt76_put_vif_phy_link (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74325
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: use kfree_rcu for offchannel link in mt76_put_vif_phy_link mt76_put_vif_phy_link() frees the offchannel mlink with plain kfree() after rcu_assign_pointer(NULL). However, rcu_assign_pointer only prevents future RCU readers from obtaining the pointer -- it does not wait for existing readers that already hold it via rcu_dereference. The TX datapath (e.g. mt7996_mac_write_txwi) dereferences mlink->wcid and mlink->idx under rcu_read_lock. If a TX softirq obtained the pointer via rcu_dereference just before the NULL assignment, it will dereference freed memory after the kfree. struct mt76_vif_link already contains an rcu_head field that is unused at this free site -- a developer oversight, since the adjacent kfree_rcu_mightsleep call for rx_sc in the same function shows the pattern was understood. Replace kfree(mlink) with kfree_rcu(mlink, rcu_head).

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a8f424c1287cc79a06c21816658feea87dfcb83f < c7a83899203ed36696a2d35ddd03c0f522874a63 ; affected a8f424c1287cc79a06c21816658feea87dfcb83f < 50e700ac0edce72dee5c3a9755865d9423696ac7 ; affected a8f424c1287cc79a06c21816658feea87dfcb83f < 7fae097aa9a56c30febf539d72ef3773165d3aa3
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.14 ; unaffected 0 < 6.14 ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.5 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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