UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90348: Medium severity ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath10k: snoc: use memcpyfromio() for MSA ramdump On WCN3990/SNOC the MSA region is mapped with devmmemremap(MEMREMAPWT). On arm64 such a mapping is not Normal-cacheable, so unaligned accesses to it are not permitted. ath10kmsadumpmemory() copies the region with a plain memcpy(), whose optimized pimemcpygeneric implementation issues wide/unaligned loads. This triggers an alignment fault (FSC=0x21) Oops in ath10ksnocfwcrasheddump() while collecting the devcoredump: Unable to handle kernel paging request ... FSC=0x21: alignment fault pc : pimemcpygeneric lr : ath10ksnocfwcrasheddump [ath10ksnoc] The Oops both leaves the firmware RAM dump buffer zeroed (no dump is captured) and crashes the kernel, which in turn breaks modem SSR recovery. Use memcpyfromio(), which only performs accesses that are valid for such a device-memory mapping. The generic memcpyfromio() implementation aligns the source before issuing word-sized reads and stores the destination with putunaligned(), so it is also safe for the coherent DMA allocation used on the non-reserved-memory path. ath11k and ath12k use the same pattern when copying target memory into crash dumps, so call it unconditionally here too. The MEMREMAPWT pointer is a plain void , so an explicit iomem cast is needed; use force to keep sparse happy. Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.3.7.c5-00107-QCAHLSWMTPL-1
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which systems are exposed to this issue?
The issue applies to systems using the ath10k SNOC driver with WCN3990/SNOC hardware, where the MSA region is mapped using devm_memremap(MEMREMAP_WT). The listed Ubuntu kernel packages include linux, linux-realtime, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-azure-fde, linux-gke, linux-riscv, and linux-gkeop.
What condition triggers the failure?
The failure occurs when ath10k collects a firmware crash RAM dump through ath10k_snoc_fw_crashed_dump(). A plain memcpy() performs invalid wide or unaligned reads from the mapped MSA region on arm64, causing an alignment fault.
How can I tell whether a system has been affected?
Kernel logs may show an Oops or paging-request failure with FSC=0x21, an alignment fault, with __pi_memcpy_generic as the program counter and ath10k_snoc_fw_crashed_dump in the call path. The firmware RAM dump buffer will remain zeroed, no usable dump will be captured, and modem SSR recovery can fail.
What is the corrective change?
The resolved implementation replaces the plain memcpy() used for the MSA RAM dump with memcpy_fromio(). This access method aligns the source before word-sized reads and safely handles the device-memory mapping.