CVE-2026-98705 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: account proxy paths against the mesh path limit

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

wifi: mac80211: account proxy paths against the mesh path limit

Proxy-path churn can drive the interface path counter negative and let later mesh path additions exceed MESH_MAX_MPATHS.

mesh_path_free_rcu() decrements the interface mpaths counter for entries from both the mesh and proxy path tables, but mpp_path_add() never reserves a slot in that counter. Removing or expiring a proxy path therefore returns a slot that was never charged.

mesh_path_add() uses the same counter to enforce MESH_MAX_MPATHS, so once it falls below the number of installed paths the limit no longer holds.

Reserve the shared quota before allocating a proxy path and release it on every unsuccessful addition. Mesh and proxy paths now share one 1024-entry budget, so mpp_path_add() can return -ENOSPC at that limit.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to df072db65fdaa34ad15e1d66fc06a53e3e97f778 (excl.)
  • affected from ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to 3b75831ceee76d32bb8e7ddd241904f92f9b5407 (excl.)
  • affected from ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to 5a32409ed34a1868830899a5d2437f0b3bf3532c (excl.)
  • affected from ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to a5f35d4b112af1415ff06bd501c8cc26cc08aa8b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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