{"cve":"CVE-2026-64586","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-06T08:16:33.830","modified":"2026-10-19T21:17:48.760","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: drain bus_reset work on device removal\n\nbrcmf_fw_crashed() and the debugfs \"reset\" entry both schedule\ndrvr->bus_reset, whose callback recovers drvr through container_of()\nand dereferences it.  The removal path frees drvr (brcmf_free ->\nwiphy_free) without draining the work, so a bus_reset callback pending\nor running during removal can outlive drvr.\n\nCancellation cannot live in brcmf_detach() or brcmf_free(): the work\ncallback reaches teardown through the bus .reset op (PCIe\nbrcmf_pcie_reset -> brcmf_detach; SDIO brcmf_sdio_bus_reset ->\nbrcmf_sdiod_remove -> brcmf_free), so cancelling there would wait for\nthe running work and deadlock.\n\nAdd a per-bus mutex (bus_reset_lock) and route all arming through\nbrcmf_bus_schedule_reset(), which under the lock skips when the bus is\nmarked removing.  Each bus remove entry calls\nbrcmf_bus_cancel_reset_work(), which under the same lock sets removing\nand cancels the work.  Holding the mutex across cancel_work_sync() makes\nthe set-removing + drain step atomic.  Every producer reaches the arming\npath from process context -- the PCIe firmware-halt notification runs in\nthe threaded IRQ handler (brcmf_pcie_isr_thread) and the SDIO hostmail\npath runs from the data workqueue -- so the mutex is taken only in\nsleepable contexts.  Where applicable the remove entry first stops the\nfirmware-crash producer: on PCIe mask the mailbox and synchronize_irq;\non SDIO unregister the bus interrupt and cancel the data worker, which\nalso reports firmware halts through brcmf_fw_crashed().  The mutex is\ninitialized at bus allocation.  The SDIO suspend power-off path frees\ndrvr through the same brcmf_sdiod_remove() and takes the same lock;\nresume re-allows the work only on a successful re-probe.\n\nAlso guard brcmf_fw_crashed() against a NULL bus_if/drvr: it can fire\nbefore brcmf_attach() wires up drvr, and it dereferences drvr\n(bphy_err/brcmf_dev_coredump) before reaching the arming gate.\n\nThe bus_reset work is shared across buses, so the drain is applied to\nevery remove path: PCIe (the .reset op introduced by the Fixes commit),\nSDIO (arms the same work through brcmf_fw_crashed()), and USB (via the\ndebugfs \"reset\" entry).  cancel_work_sync() drains a running or pending\nbus_reset work item before removal frees drvr, and patch 1/2 makes the\nscratch-buffer release safe when reset teardown has already released\nthose DMA buffers.\n\nThis patch fixes the lifetime of the bus_reset work item itself.  It does\nnot attempt to address the separate, pre-existing lifetime of the\nasynchronous firmware completion started by the PCIe reset path.  That\ncallback needs its own lifetime/ownership protocol and is being tracked\nseparately.\n\nThis issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":8.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02d378828af8bb74f6c2f4d2bee3c77cf16c861e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/177a25be1195f8bdc6160ba5f1a5699f7041c985","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b25879f004c98defa2776bedc6ca4763c51945","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4824e3bcc68f8d678b409039d1bb48c7b5ea73dc","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61127dd20920bf28460a1609aabb0dafa2f54fac"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:56:58.798400159+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-64586","score":0.0025,"percentile":0.16227,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}