CVE-2026-93804

wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 18, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect

While leaving an IBSS in ieee80211_ibss_disconnect() mac80211 flushes stations, turns the carrier off and immediately tells the driver to leave as well. While there may be synchronize_net() in station flush and in this code later, packets can still be transmitted due to cross-CPU race conditions after carrier off is set. Therefore, it's possible for a race to happen where a TX to the driver occurs while or after telling it to leave the IBSS. This can be confusing to drivers, and in the case of iwlwifi leads to an attempt to use invalid queues.

Move netif_carrier_off() to occur before sta_info_flush() during IBSS disconnect, and add synchronize_net() if flushing didn't, so that the synchronize_net() always happens between turning the carrier off and telling the driver, avoiding this race.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 86a2ea4134b48f6371103cfceb521bf2d2bf76cd to before 47185b5dbac264e7eb48c6d44368be6bfec17085Affected
  • 86a2ea4134b48f6371103cfceb521bf2d2bf76cd to before 8e4a07ed82bae5d13525770880dc6dfd27f9bccdAffected
  • 86a2ea4134b48f6371103cfceb521bf2d2bf76cd to before 20a3fb5e1a95caa34896853ca17a50d21c754969Affected
  • 86a2ea4134b48f6371103cfceb521bf2d2bf76cd to before b3451e6971248250312ad32dd7f63cc9f0a925f5Affected
  • 86a2ea4134b48f6371103cfceb521bf2d2bf76cd to before d0e69d9afa59b93c30294eba89b1f15f69e91105Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.3Affected
  • before 3.3Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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