CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-22128
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-04-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath12k_pci_free_irq() in error path
If a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the
IRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in
ath12k_pci_msi_alloc(). This does no harm unless one of the functions
requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ.
This may end up with a warning from the IRQ core that is expecting the
affinity hint to be cleared before freeing the IRQ:
kernel/irq/manage.c:
/* make sure affinity_hint is cleaned up */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(desc->affinity_hint))
desc->affinity_hint = NULL;
So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling
ath12k_pci_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once
again further down the error path due to code organization, but that does
no harm.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.12.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.2)