Linux kernel mt7925 Wi-Fi driver: Denial of Service via NULL pointer dereference
CVE: CVE-2025-38450
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-476
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2025-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

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

wifi: mt76: mt7925: prevent NULL pointer dereference in mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload()

Add a NULL check for msta->vif before accessing its members to prevent
a kernel panic in AP mode deployment. This also fix the issue reported
in [1].

The crash occurs when this function is triggered before the station is
fully initialized. The call trace shows a page fault at
mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload() due to accessing resources when msta->vif
is NULL.

Fix this by adding an early return if msta->vif is NULL and also check
wcid.sta is ready. This ensures we only proceed with decap offload
configuration when the station's state is properly initialized.

[14739.655703] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffffffffffa0
[14739.811820] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 895854 Comm: hostapd Tainted: G
[14739.821394] Tainted: [C]=CRAP, [O]=OOT_MODULE
[14739.825746] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 (DT)
[14739.831577] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[14739.838538] pc : mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload+0xc0/0x1b8 [mt7925_common]
[14739.845271] lr : mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload+0x58/0x1b8 [mt7925_common]
[14739.851985] sp : ffffffc085efb500
[14739.855295] x29: ffffffc085efb500 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffffff807803a158
[14739.862436] x26: ffffff8041ececb8 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 0000000000000001
[14739.869577] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000008 x21: ffffff8041ecea88
[14739.876715] x20: ffffff8041c19ca0 x19: ffffff8078031fe0 x18: 0000000000000000
[14739.883853] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffffe2aeac1110 x15: 000000559da48080
[14739.890991] x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
[14739.898130] x11: 0a10020001008e88 x10: 0000000000001a50 x9 : ffffffe26457bfa0
[14739.905269] x8 : ffffff8042013bb0 x7 : ffffff807fb6cbf8 x6 : dead000000000100
[14739.912407] x5 : dead000000000122 x4 : ffffff80780326c8 x3 : 0000000000000000
[14739.919546] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffffff8041ececb8
[14739.926686] Call trace:
[14739.929130]  mt7925_sta_set_decap_offload+0xc0/0x1b8 [mt7925_common]
[14739.935505]  ieee80211_check_fast_rx+0x19c/0x510 [mac80211]
[14739.941344]  _sta_info_move_state+0xe4/0x510 [mac80211]
[14739.946860]  sta_info_move_state+0x1c/0x30 [mac80211]
[14739.952116]  sta_apply_auth_flags.constprop.0+0x90/0x1b0 [mac80211]
[14739.958708]  sta_apply_parameters+0x234/0x5e0 [mac80211]
[14739.964332]  ieee80211_add_station+0xdc/0x190 [mac80211]
[14739.969950]  nl80211_new_station+0x46c/0x670 [cfg80211]
[14739.975516]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xdc/0x150
[14739.980158]  genl_rcv_msg+0x218/0x298
[14739.983830]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x64/0x138
[14739.987670]  genl_rcv+0x40/0x60
[14739.990816]  netlink_unicast+0x314/0x380
[14739.994742]  netlink_sendmsg+0x198/0x3f0
[14739.998664]  __sock_sendmsg+0x64/0xc0
[14740.002324]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x260/0x298
[14740.006242]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xb4/0x110


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