CVE-2026-68194 PUBLISHED

wifi: mt76: mt7921: drop TXRX_NOTIFY on non-mmio buses

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: mt7921: drop TXRX_NOTIFY on non-mmio buses

PKT_TYPE_TXRX_NOTIFY is an mmio-only event, but mt7921_rx_check() and mt7921_queue_rx_skb() dispatch it to mt7921_mac_tx_free() on every bus. mt7921_mac_tx_free() cleans the DMA tx queues with mt76_queue_tx_cleanup(), which calls queue_ops->tx_cleanup(). Only the mmio queue ops implement that callback; on USB and SDIO it is NULL, so a TXRX_NOTIFY there calls a NULL pointer in the RX worker:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP: 0010:0x0 Call Trace: mt7921_mac_tx_free+0x64/0x310 [mt7921_common] mt7921_rx_check+0x5f/0xf0 [mt7921_common] mt76u_rx_worker+0x1b9/0x620 [mt76_usb]

Drop the event on non-mmio buses via mt76_is_mmio(), as in commit 5683e1488aa9 ("wifi: mt76: connac: do not check WED status for non-mmio devices").

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 48fab5bbef4092d925ab3214773ad12e68807223 to ef2ee5f820c3ef87643b51e960c20b4a14d8336b (excl.)
  • affected from 48fab5bbef4092d925ab3214773ad12e68807223 to ecf995b828191829ba4a87169bccabcbeb5c9c32 (excl.)
  • affected from 48fab5bbef4092d925ab3214773ad12e68807223 to 263816e92e8d66c81c98ccab2b5d2191ed08ec71 (excl.)
  • affected from 48fab5bbef4092d925ab3214773ad12e68807223 to 24475d2ddc8d8dfd82f4d2be0d951401f86911a6 (excl.)
  • affected from 48fab5bbef4092d925ab3214773ad12e68807223 to da4082e91acabc1498611ed8ccc53f0610baefc6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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