2025-10-01 11:42:23
Linux
PUBLISHED
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 isnt
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: