Bug 2513247 (CVE-2026-68194)

Summary: CVE-2026-68194 kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7921: drop TXRX_NOTIFY on non-mmio buses
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mt76 WiFi driver. When the driver processes a `TXRX_NOTIFY` event on non-Memory-Mapped I/O (MMIO) buses, such as USB or SDIO, it attempts to call a null function pointer. This can lead to a kernel NULL pointer dereference, causing a system crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:26:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: mt7921: drop TXRX_NOTIFY on non-mmio buses

PKT_TYPE_TXRX_NOTIFY is an mmio-only event, but mt7921_rx_check() and
mt7921_queue_rx_skb() dispatch it to mt7921_mac_tx_free() on every bus.
mt7921_mac_tx_free() cleans the DMA tx queues with
mt76_queue_tx_cleanup(), which calls queue_ops->tx_cleanup(). Only the
mmio queue ops implement that callback; on USB and SDIO it is NULL, so
a TXRX_NOTIFY there calls a NULL pointer in the RX worker:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  RIP: 0010:0x0
  Call Trace:
   mt7921_mac_tx_free+0x64/0x310 [mt7921_common]
   mt7921_rx_check+0x5f/0xf0 [mt7921_common]
   mt76u_rx_worker+0x1b9/0x620 [mt76_usb]

Drop the event on non-mmio buses via mt76_is_mmio(), as in
commit 5683e1488aa9 ("wifi: mt76: connac: do not check WED status for
non-mmio devices").