CVE-2026-98337 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: don't start a ROC while scanning

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

wifi: mac80211: don't start a ROC while scanning

The ROC work can be pending when a scan starts (which requires ROC list to be empty, but that's possible), and then a new ROC can be added to the list and the work will pick it up.

Avoid starting that ROC if a scan made it between things, as otherwise we'll hit a warning later:

WARNING: net/mac80211/offchannel.c:404 at ieee80211_start_next_roc+0x256/0x2d0 Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work Call Trace: __ieee80211_scan_completed+0x4fd/0xe40 net/mac80211/scan.c:537 ieee80211_scan_work+0x472/0x1ff0 net/mac80211/scan.c:1193 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x410/0x570 net/wireless/core.c:513

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from aaa016ccd5df89d73483d0d51ee1f692978ccc35 to 5dc8ec2f8d1d62914661577c23ec151f5c9734a4 (excl.)
  • affected from aaa016ccd5df89d73483d0d51ee1f692978ccc35 to 81baab8b645ec532bad2b7a8464191c720ef8fd9 (excl.)
  • affected from aaa016ccd5df89d73483d0d51ee1f692978ccc35 to 58b806f699052c572dec6cab2c376f884f27e98f (excl.)
  • affected from aaa016ccd5df89d73483d0d51ee1f692978ccc35 to 733f0fde95392ed5f61a4e36aee661ea8d0e8581 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.5 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.5 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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