CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93804
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a3fb5e1a95caa34896853ca17a50d21c754969 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e4a07ed82bae5d13525770880dc6dfd27f9bccd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3451e6971248250312ad32dd7f63cc9f0a925f5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0e69d9afa59b93c30294eba89b1f15f69e91105 git.kernel.org