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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64175"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:41:00.157Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:28:14.434Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64175"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64175.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64175"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: mld: stop TX during firmware restart"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: mld: stop TX during firmware restart\n\nWhen iwlwifi firmware crashes (e.g., NMI_INTERRUPT_UNKNOWN on Intel\nBE201/Wi-Fi 7), iwl_mld_nic_error() sets mld-\u003efw_status.in_hw_restart\nto true. However, iwl_mld_tx_from_txq() does not check this flag before\ndequeuing frames from mac80211 and pushing them to the transport layer.\n\nSince the firmware is dead, iwl_trans_tx() returns -EIO for each frame,\nwhich then gets freed immediately. Under high-throughput conditions\n(e.g., Tailscale UDP traffic or active SSH sessions), this creates a\ntight dequeue-send-fail-free loop that wastes CPU cycles and generates\nrapid skb allocation churn, leading to memory pressure from slab\nfragmentation.\n\nThe RX path already has this guard (iwl_mld_rx_mpdu checks\nin_hw_restart at rx.c:1906), and so does the TXQ allocation worker\n(iwl_mld_add_txqs_wk at tx.c:156). Add the same guard to\niwl_mld_tx_from_txq() to stop all TX during firmware restart.\n\nFrames left in mac80211's TXQs are naturally drained after restart\ncompletes, when queue reallocation triggers iwl_mld_tx_from_txq()\nvia iwl_mld_add_txq_list(), or when new upper-layer traffic invokes\nwake_tx_queue.\n\nTested on ASUS Zenbook 14 UX3405CA with Intel BE201 (Wi-Fi 7) on\nkernel 6.19.5 where the firmware crashes approximately every 10-15\nminutes under Tailscale traffic."
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