CVE-2026-90355 PUBLISHED

wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset

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: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset

After a full chip reset, mac80211 reconfig replays interface, link and channel context setup. mt7996_vif_link_add() short-circuits when the link_id is still marked in mvif->valid_links, a state introduced for postponing link teardown to interface removal. The reset path frees the link structures without clearing those bits, so the replayed setup never re-creates dev_info/bss_info/STA records in the restarted firmware and never re-registers the link wcid, leaving the device inoperative.

The reset path also leaks every allocated MLD index: per-link indices and the per-vif group/remap indices are re-allocated from scratch during reconfig, but the old bits stay set in the masks, so repeated full resets exhaust the index space.

Clear valid_links in the reset vif iterator and reset the MLD index masks alongside the existing omac_mask clearing.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 to fc3762724a36867c1749233c43368c2637ecf029 (excl.)
  • affected from ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 to 75d2a4e2129b58bb0ddb842387299038495aad2a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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