CVE-2026-80939

wifi: rtw89: pci: add .shutdown callback to stop rfkill polling on reboot

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw89: pci: add .shutdown callback to stop rfkill polling on reboot

Since the hardware rfkill polling was introduced, arm64 platforms can panic with an asynchronous SError during warm reboot:

SError Interrupt on CPU8, code 0x00000000be000011 -- SError Workqueue: events_power_efficient rfkill_poll [rfkill] rtw89_pci_ops_read8+0x94/0x160 [rtw89_pci] rtw89_core_rfkill_poll+0x50/0x1e0 [rtw89_core] rtw89_ops_rfkill_poll+0x40/0x68 [rtw89_core] ieee80211_rfkill_poll+0x3c/0x70 [mac80211] cfg80211_rfkill_poll+0x40/0x2a0 [cfg80211] rfkill_poll+0x30/0x88 [rfkill] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt

On the reboot path the kernel only runs device_shutdown(), which calls each driver's .shutdown callback; .remove is not invoked. The rtw89 PCI driver had no .shutdown callback, so nothing stopped the rfkill polling work while the platform was tearing the PCIe link down. Once the link is gone, the next MMIO read from the poll handler targets a non-responding device and is reported as a fatal asynchronous SError on arm64.

Add rtw89_pci_shutdown(), wired to all rtw89 PCI device drivers, which sets a new RTW89_FLAG_SHUTDOWN flag (mirroring the USB RTW89_FLAG_UNPLUGGED pattern). When the flag is set, rtw89_ops_rfkill_poll() returns early, so no MMIO read is issued to the chip after shutdown begins and the SError no longer occurs.

This does not call the full .remove path from .shutdown, to keep the shutdown handler minimal and avoid running the non-idempotent teardown twice.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0b38e6277aed8a59ccb64fcc1172d962c1f11b4c to before dfe2b5b2056918d186ad890079a9e7ec1898429aAffected
  • 0b38e6277aed8a59ccb64fcc1172d962c1f11b4c to before 9693980cd7d2f5b17e5ef5922b922f2e1a770fcaAffected
  • 0b38e6277aed8a59ccb64fcc1172d962c1f11b4c to before c1f214dd1351244156deb57761b14190a233aef6Affected
  • 0b38e6277aed8a59ccb64fcc1172d962c1f11b4c to before 667c12782aaf8dd3cb2213e528fe63a73cb63345Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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