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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-72005

wifi: rt2x00: avoid full teardown before work setup in probe

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rt2x00: avoid full teardown before work setup in probe rt2x00lib_probe_dev() uses the full rt2x00lib_remove_dev() teardown for all probe failures. However, drv_data allocation and workqueue allocation can fail before intf_work, autowakeup_work and sleep_work have been initialized. Do not enter the full remove path until the probe has reached the point where those work items are set up. Return directly for drv_data allocation failure, and use a small early cleanup path for workqueue allocation failure. This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by manual review of rt2x00lib_probe_dev() and rt2x00lib_remove_dev(). The early probe exits should not call a common teardown path that assumes the later work setup has already completed. A QEMU PoC forced alloc_ordered_workqueue() to fail before the work initializers are reached. The resulting fail path entered rt2x00lib_remove_dev(), and DEBUG_OBJECTS reported invalid work drains with rt2x00lib_probe_dev() and rt2x00lib_remove_dev() in the stack.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 8b58d1f1356df6a7d2de3f55bb665b18b04ffda0affected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 59afe6148927395cf86f9429900e029a48b1d42baffected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 3c0427d719bddb33caf18ff4ffb77cb47de7eb00affected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < eb7474d0253bb2de4793e1d3ce833e8564bbe732affected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 66bd9b1a72de7c2f5141b02d796048aafaed8a49affected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 816559409e340acaa5c9d868291dab30d8c80263affected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 56994852d704535ea354a4627ca667b1b4fa0debaffected
  • 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to < 536fb3d739d75a03cb318c0c6fe799425cfea501affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 2.6.39affected
  • 0 to < 2.6.39unaffected
  • 5.10.261 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.212 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.178 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.145 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.97 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

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