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CVE-2026-31552 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wlcore: Return -ENOMEM instead of -EAGAIN if there is not enough headroom Since upstream commit e75665dd0968 ("wifi: wlcore: ensure skb headroom before skb_push"), wl1271_tx_allocate() and with it wl1271_prepare_tx_frame() returns -EAGAIN if pskb_expand_head() fails. However, in wlcore_tx_work_locked(), a return value of -EAGAIN from wl1271_prepare_tx_frame() is interpreted as the aggregation buffer being full. This causes the code to flush the buffer, put the skb back at the head of the queue, and immediately retry the same skb in a tight while loop. Because wlcore_tx_work_locked() holds wl->mutex, and the retry happens immediately with GFP_ATOMIC, this will result in an infinite loop and a CPU soft lockup. Return -ENOMEM instead so the packet is dropped and the loop terminates. The problem was found by an experimental code review agent based on gemini-3.1-pro while reviewing backports into v6.18.y.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12f9eef39e49716c763714bfda835a733d5f6dea kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46c670ff1ff466e5eccb3940f726586473dc053c kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/980f793645540ca7a6318165cc12f49d5febeb99 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6dc74209462c4fe5a88718d2f3a5286886081c8 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceb46b40b021d21911ff8608ce4ed33c1264ad2f kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfa64e2b3717be1da7c4c1aff7268a009e8c1610 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb353d9bb009638b7762cae2d0b6e8fdbb41a69 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2c06d718a7b85cbc59ceaa2ff3f46b178ac709c kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-31552
NVD Published Date:
04/24/2026
NVD Last Modified:
04/24/2026
Source:
kernel.org