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CVE-2025-23129
Linux Linux — wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0019 7.7 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux e01b3400d641cb290742849331f0d22e1202538a – —
Linux 6.7 – 6.1.188
TIMELINE
Jan 11 Reserved by Linux
Apr 16 Published (CNA: Linux)
Sep 14 ENRICHED — CVE-2025-23129 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_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
ath11k_pci_alloc_msi(). This does no harm unless one of the functions
requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ. This results in the
below warning:
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 349 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1929 free_irq+0x278/0x29c
Call trace:
free_irq+0x278/0x29c
ath11k_pcic_free_irq+0x70/0x10c [ath11k]
ath11k_pci_probe+0x800/0x820 [ath11k_pci]
local_pci_probe+0x40/0xbc
The warning is due to not clearing the affinity hint before freeing the
IRQs.
So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling
ath11k_pcic_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.
Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| January 11, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| April 16, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| September 14, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2025-23129 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | e01b3400d641cb290742849331f0d22e1202538a | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.7 | 6.1.188 |
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