Bug 2356643 (CVE-2025-21930)

Summary:	CVE-2025-21930 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't try to talk to a dead firmware
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-01 16:04:04 UTC

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

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't try to talk to a dead firmware

This fixes:

 bad state = 0
 WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 702 at drivers/net/wireless/inel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.c:178 iwl_trans_send_cmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __warn+0xca/0x1c0
  ? iwl_trans_send_cmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4]
  iwl_fw_dbg_clear_monitor_buf+0xd7/0x110 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4]
  _iwl_dbgfs_fw_dbg_clear_write+0xe2/0x120 [iwlmvm 0e8adb18cea92d2c341766bcc10b18699290068a]

Ask whether the firmware is alive before sending a command.

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2025-04-02 01:11:08 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025040133-CVE-2025-21930-cc02@gregkh/T