Bug 2502234 (CVE-2026-63822) - CVE-2026-63822 kernel: wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding
Summary: CVE-2026-63822 kernel: wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63822
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-07-19 13:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 15:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 13:03:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding

If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware,
the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released.
However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath11k_pci),
and we get:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6231 at mm/slub.c:4368 free_large_kmalloc+0x57/0x90
Call Trace:
free_large_kmalloc
ath11k_dp_free
ath11k_core_deinit
ath11k_pci_remove
...

The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing
initialization is failing.

In order to fix the issue, just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in
order to avoid the double free.


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