Bug 2373391 (CVE-2025-38009)

Summary: CVE-2025-38009 kernel: wifi: mt76: disable napi on driver removal
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 10:05:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: disable napi on driver removal

A warning on driver removal started occurring after commit 9dd05df8403b
("net: warn if NAPI instance wasn't shut down"). Disable tx napi before
deleting it in mt76_dma_cleanup().

 WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 18828 at net/core/dev.c:7288 __netif_napi_del_locked+0xf0/0x100
 CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 18828 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4 #4 PREEMPT(lazy)
 Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI, BIOS 3035 09/05/2024
 RIP: 0010:__netif_napi_del_locked+0xf0/0x100
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mt76_dma_cleanup+0x54/0x2f0 [mt76]
 mt7921_pci_remove+0xd5/0x190 [mt7921e]
 pci_device_remove+0x47/0xc0
 device_release_driver_internal+0x19e/0x200
 driver_detach+0x48/0x90
 bus_remove_driver+0x6d/0xf0
 pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xb0
 __do_sys_delete_module.isra.0+0x197/0x2e0
 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x160
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Tested with mt7921e but the same pattern can be actually applied to other
mt76 drivers calling mt76_dma_cleanup() during removal. Tx napi is enabled
in their *_dma_init() functions and only toggled off and on again inside
their suspend/resume/reset paths. So it should be okay to disable tx
napi in such a generic way.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 14:02:55 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061842-CVE-2025-38009-8043@gregkh/T