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

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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

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before 860887d22890417d43ef8298f0cc4865e29b54deAffected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before 9a4be91e5bb032b34cb3c962f6d4f82e7ef09364Affected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before fb12c87ae855346321af72e57a93c146205f1090Affected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before f50a2b9e57a751e70ae9a272875d80d39eaccd6aAffected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before 6bd21ec8549a5854dd64204a66289952917a924cAffected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before 5c342437ea44bb829680ca9e4f683dd5b325b219Affected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before c73c3fc1c7ca5a927639f0884624cb244ba791e4Affected
  • 9982464379e81ece51ced03ebecbbcd34ea367a6 to before 2a665946e0407a05a3f81bd56a08553c446498e0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.1Affected
  • before 4.1Not affected
  • 5.10.265 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.216 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.183 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.148 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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