Bug 2513153 (CVE-2026-68403) - CVE-2026-68403 kernel: wifi: brcmfmac: initialize SDIO data work before cleanup
Summary: CVE-2026-68403 kernel: wifi: brcmfmac: initialize SDIO data work before cleanup
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68403
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-11 13:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:22:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: initialize SDIO data work before cleanup

brcmf_sdio_probe() stores the newly allocated bus in sdiodev->bus before
allocating the ordered workqueue. If that allocation fails, the function
jumps to fail and calls brcmf_sdio_remove().

brcmf_sdio_remove() unconditionally cancels bus->datawork. Initialize the
work item before the first failure path that can reach brcmf_sdio_remove(),
so the cleanup path always observes a valid work object.

This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by
manual review of the probe error path and the remove-time work drain. The
problem pattern is an early setup failure that reaches a cleanup helper
which cancels an embedded work item before its initializer has run.

A QEMU PoC forced alloc_ordered_workqueue() to fail at the same point in
brcmf_sdio_probe(), before INIT_WORK(&bus->datawork) is reached. The
resulting fail path calls brcmf_sdio_remove(), and DEBUG_OBJECTS reports
the invalid work drain with brcmf_sdio_probe() and brcmf_sdio_remove() in
the stack.


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