wifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98326
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails ieee80211_join_mesh() acquires a channel context and then calls ieee80211_start_mesh(), which can fail. In that case, the chanctx isn't released then interface removal will attempt to unassign it after it's removed from the driver, hitting: wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0 WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.c:366 at drv_unassign_vif_chanctx ieee80211_assign_link_chanctx __ieee80211_link_release_channel ieee80211_link_release_channel ieee80211_teardown_sdata unregister_netdevice_many_notify _cfg80211_unregister_wdev ieee80211_remove_interfaces ieee80211_unregister_hw mac80211_hwsim_del_radio hwsim_exit_net Correctly release the channel on start failures.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 2b5e19677592c167d012c2d129407f39d2bdeb8d < f0afcec2129c166e61821d6ae097061155f01b12 ; affected 2b5e19677592c167d012c2d129407f39d2bdeb8d < b51f5a310bd6888b90bb9546a8081215dcfe6fbe ; affected 2b5e19677592c167d012c2d129407f39d2bdeb8d < 632f7acfe6dac1278a9314eaaab14fada400ddaf ; affected 2b5e19677592c167d012c2d129407f39d2bdeb8d < 41bee71112db53651ba9a9030de1b843255a4a7f ; affected 2b5e19677592c167d012c2d129407f39d2bdeb8d < 4a4e3fa77ea36d3419d806fb5883ef425a605a5d ; affected 2b5e19677592c167d012c2d129407f39d2bdeb8d < ae97fff6495a8764bc0ef281cfe5444f701e527f
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.9 ; unaffected 0 < 3.9 ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.112 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.54 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD