CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97516
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: Add NULL check for chip->edcca_th in rtw_fw_adaptivity_result()
It was recently reported that rtw_fw_adaptivity_result()
in fw.c dereferences rtwdev->chip->edcca_th without
a NULL check. The issue is that devices with the
8821CE chip don't define edcca_th in their chip
info. As a result, when rtw_fw_adaptivity_result()
tries to dereference it, the kernel triggers an oops.
Add a NULL check for edcca_th before dereferencing
it in rtw_fw_adaptivity_result() in fw.c. Placing
the check at the function entry avoids logging any
garbage values.
This change does not address the root cause for
this behavior, but it prevents the NULL dereference
and the resulting oops while a more permanent solution
is developed.
Tested on a 8822CE chip which defines edcca_th, so
this issue is not present on it, but it still uses
this driver and I can verify there are no regressions.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b58a5ac9170a6f5e6425f8e1a4b3e1d9c2bf53d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d1f250432cd8704c3c125168887f9724021c81a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fa23cafaf30f4877e357f8eebcff00dff4aa9cb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8cdb18ef80d67790d8611ba94ae3d81901c9e04 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5e6f353ce1e1c25b8458ea390ed09d2377412c5 git.kernel.org