CVE-2026-68403
wifi: brcmfmac: initialize SDIO data work before cleanup
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 19, 2026
- Reserved
- Jul 30, 2026
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/860887d22890417d43ef8298f0cc4865e29b54de
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a4be91e5bb032b34cb3c962f6d4f82e7ef09364
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb12c87ae855346321af72e57a93c146205f1090
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f50a2b9e57a751e70ae9a272875d80d39eaccd6a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bd21ec8549a5854dd64204a66289952917a924c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c342437ea44bb829680ca9e4f683dd5b325b219
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73c3fc1c7ca5a927639f0884624cb244ba791e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a665946e0407a05a3f81bd56a08553c446498e0
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