kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/wireless, branch v5.15.212

wifi: mwifiex: fix permanently busy scans after multiple roam iterations

2026-07-24T13:51:55+00:00

commit d78a407bad6f500884a8606aea1a5a9207be4030 upstream. In order for the firmware to sleep, the driver has to confirm a previously received sleep request. The normal sequence of evets goes like this: EVENT_SLEEP -> adapter->ps_state = PS_STATE_PRE_SLEEP -> sleep-confirm -> SLEEP -> EVENT_AWAKE -> AWAKE. Before sending the sleep-confirm command, the driver must make sure there are no commands either running or waiting to be completed. mwifiex_ret_802_11_associate() unconditionally sets ps_state = PS_STATE_AWAKE when it processes the association command response, outside of the normal powersave management flow. If EVENT_SLEEP arrives while the association command is in flight, ps_state is PRE_SLEEP when the association command response is parsed, and the forced AWAKE overwrites it. The deferred sleep-confirm is never sent. A subsequent scan_start command is correctly acknowledged, but the firmware doesn't generate scan_result events. The scan request never finishes, and additional requests from userspace fail with -EBUSY. After testing on both IW412 and W8997, I could only trigger the bug on the IW412 and observed the firmwares behave differently. On the IW412 the firmware still sends EVENT_SLEEP while the authentication / association process is ongoing. A W8997 under the same conditions seems to suppress power-save for the duration of the association, so PRE_SLEEP never coincided with the association response even after extended periods of testing using the loops described below (>12hours). On the IW412, the delay between commands that triggers an EVENT_SLEEP was empirically determined to be ~20ms. This delay can naturally occur when the driver is outputting debugging information (debug_mask = 0x00000037), in which situation the busy scans issue is repeatable while running "test 1)" as described below. If the delay between commands is less than ~20ms, the firmware stays awake and the issue was not reproducible running the same test. The host_mlme=false path also behaves differently. In this case, the entire authentication / association transaction is executed by one command (HostCmd_CMD_802_11_ASSOCIATE), and the firmware doesn't emit EVENT_SLEEP while the command is running. Remove the assignment so the ps_state is only manipulated in the paths that are related to powersave event handling and on the main workqueue for correct sleep confirmation. The following loop tests were performed (with debugging output enabled): 1) force roaming between two AP's, one 5GHz and one 2.4GHz, same SSID. Use wpa_cli to trigger the roaming behavior, sleep 2s between iterations. 2) force a disconnection to AP 1 and a connection to AP 2, test scan. Use wpa_cli to trigger the connection changes, sleep 2s between iterations. Each test ran in each device for at least 3 hours. Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 Signed-off-by: Rafael Beims Reviewed-by: Jeff Chen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612122547.1586872-2-rafael@beims.me Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: rt2x00: avoid full teardown before work setup in probe

2026-07-24T13:51:55+00:00

commit 536fb3d739d75a03cb318c0c6fe799425cfea501 upstream. rt2x00lib_probe_dev() uses the full rt2x00lib_remove_dev() teardown for all probe failures. However, drv_data allocation and workqueue allocation can fail before intf_work, autowakeup_work and sleep_work have been initialized. Do not enter the full remove path until the probe has reached the point where those work items are set up. Return directly for drv_data allocation failure, and use a small early cleanup path for workqueue allocation failure. This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by manual review of rt2x00lib_probe_dev() and rt2x00lib_remove_dev(). The early probe exits should not call a common teardown path that assumes the later work setup has already completed. A QEMU PoC forced alloc_ordered_workqueue() to fail before the work initializers are reached. The resulting fail path entered rt2x00lib_remove_dev(), and DEBUG_OBJECTS reported invalid work drains with rt2x00lib_probe_dev() and rt2x00lib_remove_dev() in the stack. Fixes: 1ebbc48520a0 ("rt2x00: Introduce concept of driver data in struct rt2x00_dev.") Fixes: 0439f5367c8d ("rt2x00: Move TX/RX work into dedicated workqueue") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Runyu Xiao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260619073104.1809161-1-runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from firmware count in PRINT_REG_INFO indication

2026-07-24T13:51:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit df2187acfca6c6cca372c5d35f42394d9c270b09 ] The firmware-controlled rsp->count field is used as the loop bound for indexing into the flexible rsp->regs[] array without validation against the message length. A count exceeding the actual data causes out-of- bounds reads from the heap-allocated message buffer. Add a check that count fits within the received message. Fixes: 43efa3c0f241 ("wcn36xx: Implement print_reg indication") Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani Reviewed-by: Loic Poulain Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421135018.352774-3-tristmd@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: ath9k: fix OOB access from firmware tx status queue ID

2026-07-24T13:51:28+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7ce2f118a2389e8f0a64068c6fe7cc7d40639be0 ] ath_tx_edma_tasklet() accesses sc->tx.txq[ts.qid] where ts.qid is a 4-bit hardware field (0-15), but the txq array only has ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES (10) entries. A qid >= 10 causes an OOB array access. Add a bounds check on ts.qid before using it as an array index. Fixes: fce041beb03f ("ath9k: unify edma and non-edma tx code, improve tx fifo handling") Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415222343.1540564-1-tristmd@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: rtw88: fix OOB read from firmware RX descriptor exceeding DMA buffer

2026-07-24T13:51:28+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6e76e9ed273dfb4b3333a5ebbb94958cc5752ab6 ] In rtw_pci_rx_napi(), new_len is computed as the sum of pkt_len (14-bit descriptor field, max 16383) and pkt_offset (drv_info_sz + shift, both firmware-controlled). The result can exceed RTK_PCI_RX_BUF_SIZE (11478), causing an out-of-bounds read from the pre-allocated DMA buffer when skb_put_data copies new_len bytes. The USB transport already validates this (rtw_usb_rx_data_put checks against RTW_USB_MAX_RECVBUF_SZ); the PCIe path does not. Add a check that new_len does not exceed the DMA buffer size. Fixes: e3037485c68e ("rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver") Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421111434.3389674-1-tristmd@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix C2H bit location in RX descriptor

2026-07-04T11:39:39+00:00

commit 83d38df6929118c3f996b9e3351c2d5014073d87 upstream. Bit 28 of double word 2 in the RX descriptor indicates if the packet is a normal 802.11 frame, or a message from the wifi firmware to the driver (Card 2 Host). Commit f5678bfe1cdc ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Replace local bit manipulation macros") mistakenly made the driver look for this bit in double word 1, causing packet loss and Bluetooth coexistence problems. Fixes: f5678bfe1cdc ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Replace local bit manipulation macros") Cc: Signed-off-by: Bitterblue Smith Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih Link: https://patch.msgid.link/04da7398-cedb-425a-a810-5772ab10139d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding

2026-07-04T11:39:39+00:00

commit 8b7a26b6681922a38cd5a7829ace61f8e54df9b7 upstream. If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware, the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released. However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath11k_pci), and we get: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6231 at mm/slub.c:4368 free_large_kmalloc+0x57/0x90 Call Trace: free_large_kmalloc ath11k_dp_free ath11k_core_deinit ath11k_pci_remove ... The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing initialization is failing. In order to fix the issue, just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in order to avoid the double free. Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang Reviewed-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420110130.509670-1-jtornosm@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: mt76: mt76x2u: Add support for ELECOM WDC-867SU3S

2026-07-04T11:39:39+00:00

commit f4ce0664e9f0387873b181777891741c33e19465 upstream. Add the ID 056e:400a to the table to support an additional MT7612U adapter: ELECOM WDC-867SU3S. Compile tested only. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10.x Signed-off-by: Zenm Chen Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407154430.9184-1-zenmchen@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential use-after-free issue when stopping watchdog task

2026-06-19T11:33:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit c623b63580880cc742255eaed3d79804c1b91143 ] Watchdog task might end between send_sig() and kthread_stop() calls, what results in the use-after-free issue. Fix this by increasing watchdog task reference count before calling send_sig() and dropping it by switching to kthread_stop_put(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 373c83a801f1 ("brcmfmac: stop watchdog before detach and free everything") Fixes: a9ffda88be74 ("brcm80211: fmac: abstract bus_stop interface function pointer") Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416093339.2066829-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg [ replaced kthread_stop_put() with open-coded kthread_stop() + put_task_struct() ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: mwifiex: fix use-after-free in mwifiex_adapter_cleanup()

2026-06-19T11:33:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit ae5e95d4157481693be2317e3ffcd84e36010cbb ] The mwifiex_adapter_cleanup() function uses timer_delete() (non-synchronous) for the wakeup_timer before the adapter structure is freed. This is incorrect because timer_delete() does not wait for any running timer callback to complete. If the wakeup_timer callback (wakeup_timer_fn) is executing when mwifiex_adapter_cleanup() is called, the callback will continue to access adapter fields (adapter->hw_status, adapter->if_ops.card_reset, etc.) which may be freed by mwifiex_free_adapter() called later in the mwifiex_remove_card() path. Use timer_delete_sync() instead to ensure any running timer callback has completed before returning. Fixes: 4636187da60b ("mwifiex: add wakeup timer based recovery mechanism") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Hodges Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206194401.2346-1-git@danielhodges.dev Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg [ changed `timer_delete_sync(&adapter->wakeup_timer)` to `del_timer_sync(&adapter->wakeup_timer)` ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman