Bug 2426256 (CVE-2023-54229) - CVE-2023-54229 kernel: wifi: fix registration of 6Ghz-only phy without the full channel range
Summary: CVE-2023-54229 kernel: wifi: fix registration of 6Ghz-only phy without the fu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54229
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-12-30 13:19 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-31 11:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:19:48 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath11k: fix registration of 6Ghz-only phy without the full channel range

Because of what seems to be a typo, a 6Ghz-only phy for which the BDF
does not allow the 7115Mhz channel will fail to register:

  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 106 at net/wireless/core.c:907 wiphy_register+0x914/0x954
  Modules linked in: ath11k_pci sbsa_gwdt
  CPU: 2 PID: 106 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-next-20230418-00549-g1e096a17625a-dirty #9
  Hardware name: Freebox V7R Board (DT)
  Workqueue: ath11k_qmi_driver_event ath11k_qmi_driver_event_work
  pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  pc : wiphy_register+0x914/0x954
  lr : ieee80211_register_hw+0x67c/0xc10
  sp : ffffff800b123aa0
  x29: ffffff800b123aa0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
  x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000006 x24: ffffffc008d51418
  x23: ffffffc008cb0838 x22: ffffff80176c2460 x21: 0000000000000168
  x20: ffffff80176c0000 x19: ffffff80176c03e0 x18: 0000000000000014
  x17: 00000000cbef338c x16: 00000000d2a26f21 x15: 00000000ad6bb85f
  x14: 0000000000000020 x13: 0000000000000020 x12: 00000000ffffffbd
  x11: 0000000000000208 x10: 00000000fffffdf7 x9 : ffffffc009394718
  x8 : ffffff80176c0528 x7 : 000000007fffffff x6 : 0000000000000006
  x5 : 0000000000000005 x4 : ffffff800b304284 x3 : ffffff800b304284
  x2 : ffffff800b304d98 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
  Call trace:
   wiphy_register+0x914/0x954
   ieee80211_register_hw+0x67c/0xc10
   ath11k_mac_register+0x7c4/0xe10
   ath11k_core_qmi_firmware_ready+0x1f4/0x570
   ath11k_qmi_driver_event_work+0x198/0x590
   process_one_work+0x1b8/0x328
   worker_thread+0x6c/0x414
   kthread+0x100/0x104
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
  ath11k_pci 0002:01:00.0: ieee80211 registration failed: -22
  ath11k_pci 0002:01:00.0: failed register the radio with mac80211: -22
  ath11k_pci 0002:01:00.0: failed to create pdev core: -22


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