{"id":"CVE-2025-38291","summary":"wifi: ath12k: Prevent sending WMI commands to firmware during firmware crash","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath12k: Prevent sending WMI commands to firmware during firmware crash\n\nCurrently, we encounter the following kernel call trace when a firmware\ncrash occurs. This happens because the host sends WMI commands to the\nfirmware while it is in recovery, causing the commands to fail and\nresulting in the kernel call trace.\n\nSet the ATH12K_FLAG_CRASH_FLUSH and ATH12K_FLAG_RECOVERY flags when the\nhost driver receives the firmware crash notification from MHI. This\nprevents sending WMI commands to the firmware during recovery.\n\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x75/0xc0\n register_lock_class+0x6be/0x7a0\n ? __lock_acquire+0x644/0x19a0\n __lock_acquire+0x95/0x19a0\n lock_acquire+0x265/0x310\n ? ath12k_ce_send+0xa2/0x210 [ath12k]\n ? find_held_lock+0x34/0xa0\n ? ath12k_ce_send+0x56/0x210 [ath12k]\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x33/0x70\n ? ath12k_ce_send+0xa2/0x210 [ath12k]\n ath12k_ce_send+0xa2/0x210 [ath12k]\n ath12k_htc_send+0x178/0x390 [ath12k]\n ath12k_wmi_cmd_send_nowait+0x76/0xa0 [ath12k]\n ath12k_wmi_cmd_send+0x62/0x190 [ath12k]\n ath12k_wmi_pdev_bss_chan_info_request+0x62/0xc0 [ath1\n ath12k_mac_op_get_survey+0x2be/0x310 [ath12k]\n ieee80211_dump_survey+0x99/0x240 [mac80211]\n nl80211_dump_survey+0xe7/0x470 [cfg80211]\n ? kmalloc_reserve+0x59/0xf0\n genl_dumpit+0x24/0x70\n netlink_dump+0x177/0x360\n __netlink_dump_start+0x206/0x280\n genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit.isra.22+0x8a/0xe0\n ? genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.isra.23+0xe0/0xe0\n ? genl_op_lock.part.12+0x10/0x10\n ? genl_dumpit+0x70/0x70\n genl_rcv_msg+0x1d0/0x290\n ? nl80211_del_station+0x330/0x330 [cfg80211]\n ? genl_get_cmd_both+0x50/0x50\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x4f/0x100\n genl_rcv+0x1f/0x30\n netlink_unicast+0x1b6/0x260\n netlink_sendmsg+0x31a/0x450\n __sock_sendmsg+0xa8/0xb0\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x260\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x89/0xe0\n ? local_clock_noinstr+0xb/0xc0\n ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40\n ? kfree+0x1de/0x370\n ? __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xc0\n\nTested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1","modified":"2026-03-20T12:42:46.910232Z","published":"2025-07-10T07:42:06.899Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38291.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2563069baf243cadc76dc64d9085606742c4b282"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e094a9734ea3bd4d4d117c915ccf129ac61ba1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38291.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38291"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"a9b46dd2e483bf99fa09e6aeea7701960abaa902"},{"fixed":"2563069baf243cadc76dc64d9085606742c4b282"},{"fixed":"e9e094a9734ea3bd4d4d117c915ccf129ac61ba1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38291.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}