CVE-2022-50714 wifi: mt76: mt7921e: fix rmmod crash in driver reload test
A local attacker with root privileges can cause a kernel crash by rapidly unloading the mt7921e WiFi driver before initialization completes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-50714?
CVE-2022-50714 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. 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:
wifi: mt76: mt7921e: fix rmmod crash in driver reload test
In insmod/rmmod stress test, the following crash dump shows up immediately. The problem is caused by missing mt76_dev in mt7921_pci_remove(). We should make sure the drvdata is ready before probe() finished.
[168.862789] ================================================================== [168.862797] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in try_to_grab_pending+0x59/0x480 [168.862805] Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000006df0 by task rmmod/5361 [168.862812] CPU: 7 PID: 5361 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G OE 5.19.0-rc6 #1 [168.862816] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC8i7BEH/NUC8BEB, 05/04/2020 [168.862820] Call Trace: [168.862822] <TASK> [168.862825] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63 [168.862832] print_report.cold+0x493/0x6b7 [168.862845] kasan_report+0xa7/0x120 [168.862857] kasan_check_range+0x163/0x200 [168.862861] __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 [168.862866] try_to_grab_pending+0x59/0x480 [168.862870] __cancel_work_timer+0xbb/0x340 [168.862898] cancel_work_sync+0x10/0x20 [168.862902] mt7921_pci_remove+0x61/0x1c0 [mt7921e] [168.862909] pci_device_remove+0xa3/0x1d0 [168.862914] device_remove+0xc4/0x170 [168.862920] device_release_driver_internal+0x163/0x300 [168.862925] driver_detach+0xc7/0x1a0 [168.862930] bus_remove_driver+0xeb/0x2d0 [168.862935] driver_unregister+0x71/0xb0 [168.862939] pci_unregister_driver+0x30/0x230 [168.862944] mt7921_pci_driver_exit+0x10/0x1b [mt7921e] [168.862949] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x2f9/0x4b0 [168.862968] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [168.862973] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Test steps: 1. insmode 2. do not ifup 3. rmmod quickly (within 1 second)
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50714?
How do I fix CVE-2022-50714?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2022-50714 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50714 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50714, GHSA-265p-gc7h-x375, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50714.