Bug 2546512 (CVE-2026-98331) - CVE-2026-98331 kernel: wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unregistered
Summary: CVE-2026-98331 kernel: wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unreg...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98331
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:36 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 09:22 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:36:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unregistered

mac80211 only removes vifs from the local->interfaces list when
an interface is removed via ieee80211_if_remove(), before it
unregisters the netdev. However, it's possible for a netdev to
be unregistered without going through that: When the netns that
holds the wiphy is destroyed, the wiphy is supposed to move to
the init_ns, but that can run into allocation failures.

Then, mac80211 has an interface listed that doesn't exist, and
will eventually hit

  BUG: failure at net/wireless/core.h:141/wiphy_to_rdev()!
  ...
  _cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x24/0x36a [cfg80211]
  cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x15/0x1d [cfg80211]
  ieee80211_remove_interfaces+0x1ff/0x257 [mac80211]
  ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x73/0x1d1 [mac80211]
  mac80211_hwsim_del_radio+0x114/0x166 [mac80211_hwsim]

Remove the interface from the list in ->ndo_uninit if it's still
around to avoid this.


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