CVE-2026-80825wifi: mt76: mt7925: ensure tx headroom in usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7925: ensure tx headroom in usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb mt7925_usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb() pushes a TX descriptor and a USB header onto every skb and assumes the headroom for them is already there. That holds for locally generated traffic, where mac80211 reserves hw->extra_tx_headroom, but forwarded frames are sent through ieee80211_8023_xmit(), which does not reserve it. Bridge a wired interface to an mt7925u AP and the first forwarded frame that arrives short panics the kernel: skbuff: skb_under_panic: len:415 put:4 tail:0x19b end:0x640 dev:wlan1 kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:212! Call trace: skb_panic+0x58/0x60 (P) skb_push+0x58/0x60 mt7925_usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb+0xf8/0x1b8 [mt7925_common] mt76u_tx_queue_skb+0xa0/0x1f8 [mt76_usb] __mt76_tx_queue_skb+0x54/0xe8 [mt76] mt76_txq_schedule.part.0+0x204/0x478 [mt76] mt76_txq_schedule_all+0x50/0x80 [mt76] mt792x_tx_worker+0x68/0x100 [mt792x_lib] __mt76_worker_fn+0x84/0x150 [mt76] Whether a given setup hits it depends on how much headroom the ingress netdev leaves in its rx skbs. Reproduced on a Raspberry Pi 5 bridging onboard ethernet to a Netgear A9000; originally reported on an MT7986 router running OpenWrt. Nick Morrow's testing on a Pi 4 (bcmgenet), which leaves more headroom, helped narrow the trigger to the ingress path. The same bug was fixed on mt7921 by commit 98c4d0abf5c4 ("mt76: mt7921: don't assume adequate headroom for SDIO headers"), but mt7925 was copied from mt7921 without the fix. Add the same guard here.
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- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
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- Linux
- NVD analysis
- Received
- Record last updated
- Sep 4, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name) | from c948b5da6bbec742b433138e3e3f9537a85af2e5 before 9a72b180f0575e41471e088e09bddc4b73d6dee2; from c948b5da6bbec742b433138e3e3f9537a85af2e5 before 22edb6786127271aeba7abd30f152977c605c6a3; from c948b5da6bbec742b433138e3e3f9537a85af2e5 before 8d481f93588932a95f657671d4e1601b90d130cc; from c948b5da6bbec742b433138e3e3f9537a85af2e5 before e5e8fc11a7ac578f16079f855b7fffc1649d053c; from c948b5da6bbec742b433138e3e3f9537a85af2e5 before ef3e34874d2332d0f63e72c2c35ce5c93568c125 | CNA record |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a72b180f0575e41471e088e09bddc4b73d6dee2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22edb6786127271aeba7abd30f152977c605c6a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d481f93588932a95f657671d4e1601b90d130cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5e8fc11a7ac578f16079f855b7fffc1649d053c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef3e34874d2332d0f63e72c2c35ce5c93568c125
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