wifi: rtw88: check for PCI upstream bridge existence
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: check for PCI upstream bridge existence pci_upstream_bridge() returns NULL if the device is on a root bus. If 8821CE is installed in the system with such a PCI topology, the probing routine will crash. This has probably been unnoticed as 8821CE is mostly supplied in laptops where there is a PCI-to-PCI bridge located upstream from the device. However the card might be installed on a system with different configuration. Check if the bridge does exist for the specific workaround to be applied. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace static analysis tool.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
905 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: check for PCI upstream bridge existence pci_upstream_bridge() returns NULL if the device is on a root bus. If 8821CE is installed in the system with such a PCI topology, the probing routine will crash. This has probably been unnoticed as 8821CE is mostly supplied in laptops where there is a PCI-to-PCI bridge located upstream from the device. However the card might be installed on a system with different configuration. Check if the bridge does exist for the specific workaround to be applied. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace static analysis tool.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/000134a20bbf89b1152520a2eef71f91fdb83a5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b89b4c095804c478d50376285e66700cf3c045f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bbbb56204f7359ce2139a9341b43b52a186261c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c53d68e3bcfc8faccdd76c3383a9232b05c9ae6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/959c13da6c36167ce1016d400a6104d2367f686e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc9b6303e7ea91bc360b42c7edc1fe9ceb2f47fe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb101d2abdcccb514ca4fccd3b278dd8267374f6
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46092.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46092