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CVE-2024-50234: wifi: iwlegacy: Clear stale interrupts before resuming device

7.0 CVSS

Description

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

wifi: iwlegacy: Clear stale interrupts before resuming device

iwl4965 fails upon resume from hibernation on my laptop. The reason
seems to be a stale interrupt which isn't being cleared out before
interrupts are enabled. We end up with a race beween the resume
trying to bring things back up, and the restart work (queued form
the interrupt handler) trying to bring things down. Eventually
the whole thing blows up.

Fix the problem by clearing out any stale interrupts before
interrupts get enabled during resume.

Here's a debug log of the indicent:
[ 12.042589] ieee80211 phy0: il_isr ISR inta 0x00000080, enabled 0xaa00008b, fh 0x00000000
[ 12.042625] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_irq_tasklet inta 0x00000080, enabled 0x00000000, fh 0x00000000
[ 12.042651] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.
[ 12.042653] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: On demand firmware reload
[ 12.042690] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_irq_tasklet End inta 0x00000000, enabled 0xaa00008b, fh 0x00000000, flags 0x00000282
[ 12.052207] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_mac_start enter
[ 12.052212] ieee80211 phy0: il_prep_station Add STA to driver ID 31: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 12.052244] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_set_hw_ready hardware ready
[ 12.052324] ieee80211 phy0: il_apm_init Init card's basic functions
[ 12.052348] ieee80211 phy0: il_apm_init L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
[ 12.055727] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_load_bsm Begin load bsm
[ 12.0...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50234

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.4% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

References

Timeline

2025-05-04 10:40:22 UTC
CVE

wifi: iwlegacy: Clear stale interrupts before resuming device