CVE-2025-37897 Information
Description
In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: plfxlc: Remove erroneous assert in plfxlc_mac_release
plfxlc_mac_release() asserts that mac->lock is held. This assertion is incorrect because even if it was possible it would not be the valid behaviour. The function is used when probe fails or after the device is disconnected. In both cases mac->lock can not be held as the driver is not working with the device at the moment. All functions that use mac->lock unlock it just after it was held. There is also no need to hold mac->lock for plfxlc_mac_release() itself as mac data is not affected except for mac->flags which is modified atomically.
This bug leads to the following warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 127 at drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c:106 plfxlc_mac_release+0x7d/0xa0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 127 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.1.124-syzkaller 0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
RIP: 0010:plfxlc_mac_release+0x7d/0xa0 drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c:106
Call Trace:
probe+0x941/0xbd0 drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/usb.c:694
usb_probe_interface+0x5c0/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
really_probe+0x2ab/0xcb0 drivers/base/dd.c:639
__driver_probe_device+0x1a2/0x3d0 drivers/base/dd.c:785
driver_probe_device+0x50/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:815
__device_attach_driver+0x2cf/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:943
bus_for_each_drv+0x183/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x359/0x570 drivers/base/dd.c:1015
bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xb48/0xfd0 drivers/base/core.c:3696
usb_set_configuration+0x19dd/0x2020 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x84/0x140 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x130/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
really_probe+0x2ab/0xcb0 drivers/base/dd.c:639
__driver_probe_device+0x1a2/0x3d0 drivers/base/dd.c:785
driver_probe_device+0x50/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:815
__device_attach_driver+0x2cf/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:943
bus_for_each_drv+0x183/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x359/0x570 drivers/base/dd.c:1015
bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xb48/0xfd0 drivers/base/core.c:3696
usb_new_device+0xbdd/0x18f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2620
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5477 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5617 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5773 [inline]
hub_event+0x2efe/0x5730 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5855
process_one_work+0x8a9/0x11d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
worker_thread+0xa47/0x1200 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
kthread+0x28d/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Reference
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fb15ae3b0a9221be01715dac0335647c79f3362 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36a9a2647810e57e704dde59abdf831380ca9102 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/791a2d9e87c411aec0b9b2fb735fd15e48af9de9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93d646911be1e5be20d4f5d6c48359464cef0097 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ecb4af39f80cdda3e57825923243ec11e48be6b
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