# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38009"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:28:20.068Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:32.973Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38009"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38009.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38009"
title: "wifi: mt76: disable napi on driver removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: disable napi on driver removal\n\nA warning on driver removal started occurring after commit 9dd05df8403b\n(\"net: warn if NAPI instance wasn't shut down\"). Disable tx napi before\ndeleting it in mt76_dma_cleanup().\n\n WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 18828 at net/core/dev.c:7288 __netif_napi_del_locked+0xf0/0x100\n CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 18828 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4 #4 PREEMPT(lazy)\n Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI, BIOS 3035 09/05/2024\n RIP: 0010:__netif_napi_del_locked+0xf0/0x100\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n mt76_dma_cleanup+0x54/0x2f0 [mt76]\n mt7921_pci_remove+0xd5/0x190 [mt7921e]\n pci_device_remove+0x47/0xc0\n device_release_driver_internal+0x19e/0x200\n driver_detach+0x48/0x90\n bus_remove_driver+0x6d/0xf0\n pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xb0\n __do_sys_delete_module.isra.0+0x197/0x2e0\n do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x160\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nTested with mt7921e but the same pattern can be actually applied to other\nmt76 drivers calling mt76_dma_cleanup() during removal. Tx napi is enabled\nin their *_dma_init() functions and only toggled off and on again inside\ntheir suspend/resume/reset paths. So it should be okay to disable tx\nnapi in such a generic way.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org)."
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