wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails
CVE: CVE-2025-22119
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-908
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2025-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

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

wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails

syzbort reported a uninitialize wiphy_work_lock in cfg80211_dev_free. [1]

After rfkill allocation fails, the wiphy release process will be performed,
which will cause cfg80211_dev_free to access the uninitialized wiphy_work
related data.

Move the initialization of wiphy_work to before rfkill initialization to
avoid this issue.

[1]
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5935 Comm: syz-executor550 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc6-syzkaller-00103-g4003c9e78778 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 assign_lock_key kernel/locking/lockdep.c:983 [inline]
 register_lock_class+0xc39/0x1240 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1297
 __lock_acquire+0x135/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5103
 lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 cfg80211_dev_free+0x30/0x3d0 net/wireless/core.c:1196
 device_release+0xa1/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2568
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x1e4/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
 put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3774
 wiphy_free net/wireless/core.c:1224 [inline]
 wiphy_new_nm+0x1c1f/0x2160 net/wireless/core.c:562
 ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm+0x1b7a/0x2260 net/mac80211/main.c:835
 mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x1d6/0x54e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:5185
 hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xb42/0x12b0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:6242
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x202/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x565/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2533
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1882
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:733 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2573
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2627
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2659
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

Close: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029


Remediation:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.