ghsa-2w3p-68xj-4hh5
Vulnerability from github
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.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-22128"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-04-16T15:16:06Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath12k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath12k_pci_free_irq() in error path\n\nIf a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the\nIRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in\nath12k_pci_msi_alloc(). This does no harm unless one of the functions\nrequesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ.\n\nThis may end up with a warning from the IRQ core that is expecting the\naffinity hint to be cleared before freeing the IRQ:\n\nkernel/irq/manage.c:\n\n\t/* make sure affinity_hint is cleaned up */\n\tif (WARN_ON_ONCE(desc-\u003eaffinity_hint))\n\t\tdesc-\u003eaffinity_hint = NULL;\n\nSo to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling\nath12k_pci_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once\nagain further down the error path due to code organization, but that does\nno harm.",
"id": "GHSA-2w3p-68xj-4hh5",
"modified": "2025-06-27T12:31:13Z",
"published": "2025-04-16T15:34:46Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22128"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35b33ba76765ce9e72949d957f3cf1feafd2955c"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a69a594794fcad96d4cfce12aab6c5014a12b4c8"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b43b1e2c52db77c872bd60d30cdcc72c47df70c7"
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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