CVE-2025-23129
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/04/2025
Last modified:
24/11/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path<br />
<br />
If a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the<br />
IRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in<br />
ath11k_pci_alloc_msi(). This does no harm unless one of the functions<br />
requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ. This results in the<br />
below warning:<br />
<br />
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 349 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1929 free_irq+0x278/0x29c<br />
Call trace:<br />
free_irq+0x278/0x29c<br />
ath11k_pcic_free_irq+0x70/0x10c [ath11k]<br />
ath11k_pci_probe+0x800/0x820 [ath11k_pci]<br />
local_pci_probe+0x40/0xbc<br />
<br />
The warning is due to not clearing the affinity hint before freeing the<br />
IRQs.<br />
<br />
So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling<br />
ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once<br />
again further down the error path due to code organization, but that does<br />
no harm.<br />
<br />
Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.1.63 (including) | 6.2 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.5.12 (including) | 6.6 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.6.2 (including) | 6.14.2 (excluding) |
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