CVE-2026-90353 PUBLISHED

wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix ext PHY use-after-free on register error path

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix ext PHY use-after-free on register error path

After mt7915_register_ext_phy() succeeded, a failure of the main PHY mt7915_init_debugfs() or mt7915_coredump_register() unwound through free_phy2, which called ieee80211_free_hw() on the ext PHY hw while it was still registered with mac80211, since mt76_unregister_device() only unregisters the main hw. Unregister the ext PHY (thermal + phy + hw) first and skip the redundant free.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7b8e1ae886e45aed9274048f2836a70b75ecfa40 to aa55bec92ba7747dd08feff409f8074c5e052e71 (excl.)
  • affected from 7b8e1ae886e45aed9274048f2836a70b75ecfa40 to ad706fcf6255494613b94418e7243d98065dbeaf (excl.)
  • affected from 7b8e1ae886e45aed9274048f2836a70b75ecfa40 to 34058ad122f7524e33df8e38caba4b1d803b025a (excl.)
  • affected from 7b8e1ae886e45aed9274048f2836a70b75ecfa40 to a7fd3bae8e11a7c00df6a5021d9ef248ae9f9bf5 (excl.)
  • affected from 7b8e1ae886e45aed9274048f2836a70b75ecfa40 to 648f5f03ff50d4bd719106ace0cdf1d8be02cbdd (excl.)
  • affected from 7b8e1ae886e45aed9274048f2836a70b75ecfa40 to 15b960014f24dce5388d4a2e7274e6490cb3c421 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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