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CVE-2025-39732 (GCVE-0-2025-39732)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-07 15:16 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:04
VLAI
Title
wifi: ath11k: fix sleeping-in-atomic in ath11k_mac_op_set_bitrate_mask()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix sleeping-in-atomic in ath11k_mac_op_set_bitrate_mask() ath11k_mac_disable_peer_fixed_rate() is passed as the iterator to ieee80211_iterate_stations_atomic(). Note in this case the iterator is required to be atomic, however ath11k_mac_disable_peer_fixed_rate() does not follow it as it might sleep. Consequently below warning is seen: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at wmi.c:304 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl __might_resched.cold ath11k_wmi_cmd_send ath11k_wmi_set_peer_param ath11k_mac_disable_peer_fixed_rate ieee80211_iterate_stations_atomic ath11k_mac_op_set_bitrate_mask.cold Change to ieee80211_iterate_stations_mtx() to fix this issue. Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < 9c0e3144924c7db701575a73af341d33184afeaf (git)
Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < 7d4d0db0dc9424de2bdc0b45e919e4892603356f (git)
Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < 6bdef22d540258ca06f079f7b6ae100669a19b47 (git)
Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < 65c12b104cb942d588a1a093acc4537fb3d3b129 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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