Bug 2440647 (CVE-2025-71226) - CVE-2025-71226 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: Implement settime64 as stub for MVM/MLD PTP
Summary: CVE-2025-71226 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: Implement settime64 as stub for MVM/MLD...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71226
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-02-18 15:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-24 20:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-18 15:03:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: Implement settime64 as stub for MVM/MLD PTP

Since commit dfb073d32cac ("ptp: Return -EINVAL on ptp_clock_register if
required ops are NULL"), PTP clock registered through ptp_clock_register
is required to have ptp_clock_info.settime64 set, however, neither MVM
nor MLD's PTP clock implementation sets it, resulting in warnings when
the interface starts up, like

WARNING: drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c:325 at ptp_clock_register+0x2c8/0x6b8, CPU#1: wpa_supplicant/469
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 469 Comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 6.18.0+ #101 PREEMPT(full)
ra: ffff800002732cd4 iwl_mvm_ptp_init+0x114/0x188 [iwlmvm]
ERA: 9000000002fdc468 ptp_clock_register+0x2c8/0x6b8
iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Failed to register PHC clock (-22)

I don't find an appropriate firmware interface to implement settime64()
for iwlwifi MLD/MVM, thus instead create a stub that returns
-EOPTNOTSUPP only, suppressing the warning and allowing the PTP clock to
be registered.


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