CVE-2021-47019 mt76: mt7921: fix possible invalid register access

Medium 5.5 Published 28 Feb 2024 Updated 11 May 2026

A race condition in the mt7921 Wi-Fi driver during system suspend can cause invalid register access, leading to a kernel panic and denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2021-47019?

CVE-2021-47019 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

mt76: mt7921: fix possible invalid register access

Disable the interrupt and synchronze for the pending irq handlers to ensure the irq tasklet is not being scheduled after the suspend to avoid the possible invalid register access acts when the host pcie controller is suspended.

[17932.910534] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x22c returned 0 after 21375 usecs [17932.910590] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: calling pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x22c @ 18565, parent: pci0000:00 [17932.910602] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x22c returned 0 after 8 usecs [17932.910671] mtk-pcie 11230000.pcie: calling platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x60 @ 22783, parent: soc [17932.910674] mtk-pcie 11230000.pcie: platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x60 returned 0 after 0 usecs

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17933.615352] x1 : 00000000000d4200 x0 : ffffff8269ca2300 [17933.620666] Call trace: [17933.623127] mt76_mmio_rr+0x28/0xf0 [mt76] [17933.627234] mt7921_rr+0x38/0x44 [mt7921e] [17933.631339] mt7921_irq_tasklet+0x54/0x1d8 [mt7921e] [17933.636309] tasklet_action_common+0x12c/0x16c [17933.640754] tasklet_action+0x24/0x2c [17933.644418] __do_softirq+0x16c/0x344 [17933.648082] irq_exit+0xa8/0xac [17933.651224] scheduler_ipi+0xd4/0x148 [17933.654890] handle_IPI+0x164/0x2d4 [17933.658379] gic_handle_irq+0x140/0x178 [17933.662216] el1_irq+0xb8/0x180 [17933.665361] cpuidle_enter_state+0xf8/0x204 [17933.669544] cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x4c [17933.673122] do_idle+0x1a4/0x2a8 [17933.676352] cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x28 [17933.680276] rest_init+0xd4/0xe0 [17933.683508] arch_call_rest_init+0x10/0x18 [17933.687606] start_kernel+0x340/0x3b4 [17933.691279] Code: aa0003f5 d503201f f953eaa8 8b344108 (b9400113) [17933.697373] ---[ end trace a24b8e26ffbda3c5 ]--- [17933.767846] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47019?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2021-47019?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-47019 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-47019 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47019 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-gc58-f6gq-w9xv, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47019.