CVE-2026-74407

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: cancel SSR work items during PCI shutdown A reboot can crash the kernel if it overlaps with WLAN firmware crash recovery (SSR). The crash is a NULL pointer dereference in the MHI teardown path while freeing DMA-backed MHI contexts. Simplified trace: dma_free_attrs mhi_deinit_dev_ctxt [mhi] ath11k_pci_power_down [ath11k_pci] ath11k_pci_shutdown [ath11k_pci] device_shutdown kernel_restart On the host side, SSR is driven by the MHI RDDM callback, which queues reset_work to perform device recovery. reset_work power-cycles the device by calling ath11k_hif_power_down() followed by ath11k_hif_power_up(). The power-down phase deinitializes MHI and frees DMA resources. Shutdown/reboot runs fully asynchronously with this RDDM-driven SSR recovery flow. As a result, the shutdown path (ath11k_pci_shutdown() -> ath11k_pci_power_down()) can race with the SSR recovery sequence. Fix this by canceling SSR-related work items during PCI shutdown, marking the device as unregistering, and serializing the RDDM callback path that checks and queues reset_work. This ensures that no new SSR recovery work can be queued once teardown has started, and that any in-flight recovery work is fully synchronized before device power-down, preventing MHI teardown and DMA resource freeing from running more than once. Note: This issue only affects PCI/MHI-based devices. AHB-based ath11k devices do not queue reset_work in normal SSR flows. Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-04866.5-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedAug 15, 2026
First seenAug 15, 2026

How to fix

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  • Linux Linux7630eb217166435e8a6dd501fa4ad304e2264407, f82d42577ee4a191b0ad0f0a3b49fc1935dff845, daeb44fb8d700654f37f54d1ee36cd67645d0d34, 6dd3701facc0cee62d6682e49eed64499f9d0e43, 53dd29e8aeb2a1b5f079178551836b85fc6b53df, 8c79aac429b583301f387374ff37c59be671df87 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linux13da397f884d9c9a3fb6616206eeb6c6ab097287 ≤ v < 7630eb217166435e8a6dd501fa4ad304e2264407, 13da397f884d9c9a3fb6616206eeb6c6ab097287 ≤ v < f82d42577ee4a191b0ad0f0a3b49fc1935dff845, 13da397f884d9c9a3fb6616206eeb6c6ab097287 ≤ v < daeb44fb8d700654f37f54d1ee36cd67645d0d34, 13da397f884d9c9a3fb6616206eeb6c6ab097287 ≤ v < 6dd3701facc0cee62d6682e49eed64499f9d0e43, 13da397f884d9c9a3fb6616206eeb6c6ab097287 ≤ v < 53dd29e8aeb2a1b5f079178551836b85fc6b53df, 13da397f884d9c9a3fb6616206eeb6c6ab097287 ≤ v < 8c79aac429b583301f387374ff37c59be671df87, 5.197630eb217166435e8a6dd501fa4ad304e2264407, f82d42577ee4a191b0ad0f0a3b49fc1935dff845, daeb44fb8d700654f37f54d1ee36cd67645d0d34, 6dd3701facc0cee62d6682e49eed64499f9d0e43, 53dd29e8aeb2a1b5f079178551836b85fc6b53df, 8c79aac429b583301f387374ff37c59be671df87

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CVE-2026-74407 · Linux · Dark Radar