CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80940

Low risk· EPSS 6%
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the rtw88 wifi driver (PCI) allocates PCI resources via rtw_pci_setup_resource() before setting up NAPI in rtw_pci_probe(). If rtw_pci_napi_init() fails, the error path skips rtw_pci_destroy(), leaving the allocated PCI resources behind.

Risk Assessment

A PCI resource leak can lead to device re-initialization problems and system instability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix that adds a dedicated cleanup label for the NAPI setup failure path.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: pci: fix resource leak on failed NAPI setup rtw_pci_probe() allocates PCI resources through rtw_pci_setup_resource() before it sets up NAPI. If rtw_pci_napi_init() fails, the error path jumps straight to err_pci_declaim and skips rtw_pci_destroy(), leaving the PCI resources allocated by rtw_pci_setup_resource() behind. Add a dedicated cleanup label for the NAPI setup failure path so probe destroys the PCI resources. The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing current mainline kernels. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly available. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still present in v7.1-rc7. An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have a suitable rtw88 PCI board to test with, no runtime testing was able to be performed.

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