PT-2026-90069 · Linux · Linux

CVE-2026-80939

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Published

2026-09-11

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Updated

2026-09-11

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw89: pci: add .shutdown callback to stop rfkill polling on reboot
Since the hardware rfkill polling was introduced, arm64 platforms can panic with an asynchronous SError during warm reboot:
SError Interrupt on CPU8, code 0x00000000be000011 -- SError Workqueue: events power efficient rfkill poll [rfkill] rtw89 pci ops read8+0x94/0x160 [rtw89 pci] rtw89 core rfkill poll+0x50/0x1e0 [rtw89 core] rtw89 ops rfkill poll+0x40/0x68 [rtw89 core] ieee80211 rfkill poll+0x3c/0x70 [mac80211] cfg80211 rfkill poll+0x40/0x2a0 [cfg80211] rfkill poll+0x30/0x88 [rfkill] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt
On the reboot path the kernel only runs device shutdown(), which calls each driver's .shutdown callback; .remove is not invoked. The rtw89 PCI driver had no .shutdown callback, so nothing stopped the rfkill polling work while the platform was tearing the PCIe link down. Once the link is gone, the next MMIO read from the poll handler targets a non-responding device and is reported as a fatal asynchronous SError on arm64.
Add rtw89 pci shutdown(), wired to all rtw89 PCI device drivers, which sets a new RTW89 FLAG SHUTDOWN flag (mirroring the USB RTW89 FLAG UNPLUGGED pattern). When the flag is set, rtw89 ops rfkill poll() returns early, so no MMIO read is issued to the chip after shutdown begins and the SError no longer occurs.
This does not call the full .remove path from .shutdown, to keep the shutdown handler minimal and avoid running the non-idempotent teardown twice.
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Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-80939

Affected Products

Linux