Bug 2360249 (CVE-2025-23129) - CVE-2025-23129 kernel: wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path
Summary: CVE-2025-23129 kernel: wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-23129
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-04-16 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-17 12:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:04:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path

If a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the
IRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in
ath11k_pci_alloc_msi(). This does no harm unless one of the functions
requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ. This results in the
below warning:

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 349 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1929 free_irq+0x278/0x29c
Call trace:
 free_irq+0x278/0x29c
 ath11k_pcic_free_irq+0x70/0x10c [ath11k]
 ath11k_pci_probe+0x800/0x820 [ath11k_pci]
 local_pci_probe+0x40/0xbc

The warning is due to not clearing the affinity hint before freeing the
IRQs.

So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling
ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once
again further down the error path due to code organization, but that does
no harm.

Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 10:27:00 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041630-CVE-2025-23129-7ada@gregkh/T


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