wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait This appears to work around a deadlock regression that came in with the LED merge in 6.9. The deadlock happens on my system with 24 iwlwifi radios, so maybe it something like all worker threads are busy and some work that needs to complete cannot complete. [also remove unnecessary "load_module" var and now-wrong comment]
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.9.2
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-36970
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 17:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait This appears to work around a deadlock regression that came in with the LED merge in 6.9. The deadlock happens on my system with 24 iwlwifi radios, so maybe it something like all worker threads are busy and some work that needs to complete cannot complete. [also remove unnecessary "load_module" var and now-wrong comment]
osv:CVE-2024-36970
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.9.2
Complete source record
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