Bug 2390394 (CVE-2025-38647)

Summary: CVE-2025-38647 kernel: wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-22 17:04:38 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi

The following assertion is triggered on the rtw89 driver startup. It
looks meaningless to hold wiphy lock on the early init stage so drop the
assertion.

 WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 629 at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/sar.c:502 rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core]
 CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 629 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.15.0+ #29 PREEMPT(lazy)
 Hardware name: LENOVO 21D0/LNVNB161216, BIOS J6CN50WW 09/27/2024
 RIP: 0010:rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  rtw89_sar_init+0x68/0x2c0 [rtw89_core]
  rtw89_core_init+0x188e/0x1e50 [rtw89_core]
  rtw89_pci_probe+0x530/0xb50 [rtw89_pci]
  local_pci_probe+0xd9/0x190
  pci_call_probe+0x183/0x540
  pci_device_probe+0x171/0x2c0
  really_probe+0x1e1/0x890
  __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x390
  driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120
  __driver_attach+0x1a0/0x530
  bus_for_each_dev+0x10b/0x190
  bus_add_driver+0x2eb/0x540
  driver_register+0x1a3/0x3a0
  do_one_initcall+0xd5/0x450
  do_init_module+0x2cc/0x8f0
  init_module_from_file+0xe1/0x150
  idempotent_init_module+0x226/0x760
  __x64_sys_finit_module+0xcd/0x150
  do_syscall_64+0x94/0x380
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
Comment 1 Vipul Nair 2025-08-25 06:15:54 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025082236-CVE-2025-38647-af0d@gregkh/T