CVE-2026-90355 (GCVE-0-2026-90355)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:09 – Updated: 2026-09-17 16:09
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Title
wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset After a full chip reset, mac80211 reconfig replays interface, link and channel context setup. mt7996_vif_link_add() short-circuits when the link_id is still marked in mvif->valid_links, a state introduced for postponing link teardown to interface removal. The reset path frees the link structures without clearing those bits, so the replayed setup never re-creates dev_info/bss_info/STA records in the restarted firmware and never re-registers the link wcid, leaving the device inoperative. The reset path also leaks every allocated MLD index: per-link indices and the per-vif group/remap indices are re-allocated from scratch during reconfig, but the old bits stay set in the masks, so repeated full resets exhaust the index space. Clear valid_links in the reset vif iterator and reset the MLD index masks alongside the existing omac_mask clearing.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 , < fc3762724a36867c1749233c43368c2637ecf029 (git)
Affected: ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878 , < 75d2a4e2129b58bb0ddb842387299038495aad2a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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