Bug 2559673 (CVE-2026-98936) - CVE-2026-98936 kernel: kernel: ath11k: Denial of Service via unreset station counter during hardware restart
Summary: CVE-2026-98936 kernel: kernel: ath11k: Denial of Service via unreset station ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98936
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: 2026-10-23 12:58 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 19:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 12:58:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath11k: reset ar->num_stations on hardware start

When (multiple) hw restart occurs, we end up in a situation where we
cannot accept new stations / mesh peers. This seems to be the
'num_stations' in 'struct ath11k' that did not get reset properly in
this case. In ath11k_mac_op_start(), it was indeed the only accounting var
that did not get reset so let's clear it too.

This avoids problems like those:

	[1248828.088023] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 12281 at net/mac80211/util.c:1682 ieee80211_reconfig_stations+0x98/0xc0
	[1248828.088115] Call trace:
	[1248828.088116]  ieee80211_reconfig_stations+0x98/0xc0 (P)
	[1248828.088119]  ieee80211_reconfig+0x774/0x1438
	[1248828.088123]  ieee80211_restart_work+0x10c/0x178
	[1248828.088127]  process_one_work+0x178/0x3c0
	[1248828.088130]  worker_thread+0x280/0x440
	[1248828.088133]  kthread+0xe0/0xf8
	[1248828.088137]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
	[1248828.088141] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
	[1248836.686604] ath11k_pci 0000:04:00.0: refusing to associate station: too many connected already (128)
	[1248836.686609] ath11k_pci 0000:04:00.0: Failed to add station: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx for VDEV: 1

Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-01977-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1


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