CVE-2026-90355

wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset

After a full chip reset, mac80211 reconfig replays interface, link and channel context setup. mt7996_vif_link_add() short-circuits when the link_id is still marked in mvif->valid_links, a state introduced for postponing link teardown to interface removal. The reset path frees the link structures without clearing those bits, so the replayed setup never re-creates dev_info/bss_info/STA records in the restarted firmware and never re-registers the link wcid, leaving the device inoperative.

The reset path also leaks every allocated MLD index: per-link indices and the per-vif group/remap indices are re-allocated from scratch during reconfig, but the old bits stay set in the masks, so repeated full resets exhaust the index space.

Clear valid_links in the reset vif iterator and reset the MLD index masks alongside the existing omac_mask clearing.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 to before e512823aabbdc91444b9d886638f059ef58e86b1Affected
  • ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 to before fc3762724a36867c1749233c43368c2637ecf029Affected
  • ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 to before 75d2a4e2129b58bb0ddb842387299038495aad2aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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