Bug 2532163 (CVE-2026-80944) - CVE-2026-80944 kernel: wifi: mwifiex: Detach sync cmd buffer on interrupted wait
Summary: CVE-2026-80944 kernel: wifi: mwifiex: Detach sync cmd buffer on interrupted wait
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80944
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-11 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-14 15:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 21:02:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mwifiex: Detach sync cmd buffer on interrupted wait

mwifiex synchronous commands keep the caller-provided data buffer in
cmd_node->data_buf. Several callers pass stack-allocated objects there.

If wait_event_interruptible_timeout() is interrupted, the caller can
return and release that stack object while the firmware command is still
the current command. A late firmware response then reaches the normal
response handler, which can copy data through cmd_node->data_buf into the
stale stack address.

This fixes a stack corruption observed during repeated association and
disassociation cycles. The panic trace showed the command wait being
interrupted immediately before a bad pointer dereference:

  cmd_wait_q terminated: -512
  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 002c583837384662
  Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
  ...
  Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK

The fault address decodes as little-endian ASCII:

  0x002c583837384662 -> "bF878X,\0"

which is a fragment of the VERSION_EXT firmware string exposed as
debugfs "verext":

  w8997o-V4, RF878X, FP92, 16.92.21.p153.7

The same runs also showed corrupted control data containing:

  0x2400372e333531 -> "153.7\0$"

which is the tail of the same VERSION_EXT string. This points at a late
VERSION_EXT response writing through a stale stack-backed data_buf after
the interrupted wait returned.

After cancelling pending commands on an interrupted or timed-out wait,
detach the caller-owned data buffer from the still-current command. This
preserves the existing command cancellation behaviour while preventing a
late response from writing through a pointer whose lifetime ended with the
waiting caller.

Tested on an i.MX8MP board using an 88W8997.


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