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CVE-2025-21930

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't try to talk to a dead firmware PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't try to talk to a dead firmware This fixes: bad state = 0 WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 702 at drivers/net/wireless/inel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.c:178 iwl_trans_send_cmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi] Call Trace: <TASK> ? __warn+0xca/0x1c0 ? iwl_trans_send_cmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4] iwl_fw_dbg_clear_monitor_buf+0xd7/0x110 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4] _iwl_dbgfs_fw_dbg_clear_write+0xe2/0x120 [iwlmvm 0e8adb18cea92d2c341766bcc10b18699290068a] Ask whether the firmware is alive before sending a command.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 268712dc3b344f3a835211e5846e6ebfd7a13cbd before 437e93ecd40754f9e938d524daf52a10c589e2d4; affected 268712dc3b344f3a835211e5846e6ebfd7a13cbd before e7c31a3f4f27d61b9ccd894a7bf4690f137da0ec; affected 268712dc3b344f3a835211e5846e6ebfd7a13cbd before d73d2c6e3313f0ba60711ab4f4b9044eddca9ca5
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.8; unaffected 0 before 6.8; unaffected 6.12.19 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.13.7 through 6.13.*; unaffected 6.14 through *

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