CVE-2025-38420 wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware Syzkaller reports 1, 2 crashes caused by an attempts to ping the device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device doesn't pass 'ieee80211registerhw...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. Linux kernel has a security vulnerability that stems from a security issue in wifi carl9170...