# CVE-2021-47194: cfg80211: call cfg80211\_stop\_ap when switch from P2P\_GO type

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-10 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cfg80211: call cfg80211_stop_ap when switch from P2P_GO type If the userspace tools switch from NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO to NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC via send_msg(NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE), it does not call the cleanup cfg80211_stop_ap(), this leads to the initialization of in-use data. For example, this path re-init the sdata->assigned_chanctx_list while it is still an element of assigned_vifs list, and makes that linked list corrupt.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f06bb8c216bcd172394f61e557727e691b4cb24
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0738cdb636c21ab552eaecf905efa4a6070e3ebc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e458abbb4a523f1413bfe15c079cf4e24c15b21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8a045e2a9b234cfbc06cf36923886164358ddec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52affc201fc22a1ab9a59ef0ed641a9adfcb8d13
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b97b5776daa0b39dbdadfea176f9cc0646d4a66
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a9b671c8d74a3e1b999e7a0c7f366079bcc93dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/563fbefed46ae4c1f70cffb8eb54c02df480b2c2

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