CVE-2026-98337: wifi: mac80211: don't start a ROC while scanning

Published Oct 6, 2026
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Updated

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

wifi: mac80211: don't start a ROC while scanning

The ROC work can be pending when a scan starts (which requires ROC list to be empty, but that's possible), and then a new ROC can be added to the list and the work will pick it up.

Avoid starting that ROC if a scan made it between things, as otherwise we'll hit a warning later:

WARNING: net/mac80211/offchannel.c:404 at ieee80211startnextroc+0x256/0x2d0 Workqueue: eventsunbound cfg80211wiphywork Call Trace: ieee80211scancompleted+0x4fd/0xe40 net/mac80211/scan.c:537 ieee80211scanwork+0x472/0x1ff0 net/mac80211/scan.c:1193 cfg80211wiphywork+0x410/0x570 net/wireless/core.c:513

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Oct 6, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:46 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:46 AM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:18 AM
Description

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