CVE-2026-93149 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: avoid NULL skb in stop queue drain

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

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

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: avoid NULL skb in stop queue drain

mac80211_hwsim_stop() drops any frames left in data->pending. The loop currently checks skb_queue_empty() and then dequeues separately.

That split is racy with TX status handling, which can remove a pending frame under the queue lock. If the last entry is removed after the empty check, skb_dequeue() returns NULL and the stop path passes that NULL skb to ieee80211_free_txskb().

Use skb_dequeue() as the loop condition instead. The dequeue result is the object that stop owns and frees, and a concurrent status completion that empties the queue simply makes the loop terminate.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bd18de517923903a177508fc8813f44e717b1c00 to d131027054a8dd922dda01fe8d381abe5af4970b (excl.)
  • affected from bd18de517923903a177508fc8813f44e717b1c00 to c40ba47f2ba1951cb32ea048667ed014d36a5749 (excl.)
  • affected from bd18de517923903a177508fc8813f44e717b1c00 to 2817431a61557f46dc63077b7cc126bc906c242e (excl.)
  • affected from bd18de517923903a177508fc8813f44e717b1c00 to e7fccad2c8e6ef6bbafe509c95869d161d0f466b (excl.)
  • affected from bd18de517923903a177508fc8813f44e717b1c00 to 1c2a4ab6efa26415dd131b8c222e7893fda03435 (excl.)
  • affected from bd18de517923903a177508fc8813f44e717b1c00 to 158438cd6ad69d6dd7d871582c38baf22169fede (excl.)
  • Version 78bf3c6131488b00386acd9aff1ea4e6c44fa38e is affected
  • Version a9028333001f793b2724e8be42fce3336de2cf1c is affected
  • Version 7019c9f385b264a2d6f685028268422d55087e37 is affected
  • affected from 5.4.129 to 5.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.10.47 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.12.14 to 5.13 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.13 (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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