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  "id": "RPI-CVE-2025-22119",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
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  "published": "2025-04-16T14:14:59Z",
  "summary": "wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails\n\nsyzbort reported a uninitialize wiphy_work_lock in cfg80211_dev_free. [1]\n\nAfter rfkill allocation fails, the wiphy release process will be performed,\nwhich will cause cfg80211_dev_free to access the uninitialized wiphy_work\nrelated data.\n\nMove the initialization of wiphy_work to before rfkill initialization to\navoid this issue.\n\n[1]\nINFO: trying to register non-static key.\nThe code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe\nyou didn't initialize this object before use?\nturning off the locking correctness validator.\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5935 Comm: syz-executor550 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc6-syzkaller-00103-g4003c9e78778 #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n assign_lock_key kernel/locking/lockdep.c:983 [inline]\n register_lock_class+0xc39/0x1240 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1297\n __lock_acquire+0x135/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5103\n lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851\n __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162\n cfg80211_dev_free+0x30/0x3d0 net/wireless/core.c:1196\n device_release+0xa1/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2568\n kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]\n kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]\n kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]\n kobject_put+0x1e4/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737\n put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3774\n wiphy_free net/wireless/core.c:1224 [inline]\n wiphy_new_nm+0x1c1f/0x2160 net/wireless/core.c:562\n ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm+0x1b7a/0x2260 net/mac80211/main.c:835\n mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x1d6/0x54e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:5185\n hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xb42/0x12b0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:6242\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x202/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115\n genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]\n genl_rcv_msg+0x565/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2533\n genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338\n netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1882\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:733 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2573\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2627\n __sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2659\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n\nClose: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029",
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