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CVE-2026-23017 — idpf: fix error handling in the init_task on load

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

idpf: fix error handling in the init_task on load

If the init_task fails during a driver load, we end up without vports and netdevs, effectively failing the entire process. In that state a subsequent reset will result in a crash as the service task attempts to access uninitialized resources. Following trace is from an error in the init_task where the CREATE_VPORT (op 501) is rejected by the FW:

[40922.763136] idpf 0000:83:00.0: Device HW Reset initiated [40924.449797] idpf 0000:83:00.0: Transaction failed (op 501) [40958.148190] idpf 0000:83:00.0: HW reset detected [40958.161202] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000a8 ... [40958.168094] Workqueue: idpf-0000:83:00.0-vc_event idpf_vc_event_task [idpf] [40958.168865] RIP: 0010:idpf_vc_event_task+0x9b/0x350 [idpf] ... [40958.177932] Call Trace: [40958.178491] <TASK> [40958.179040] process_one_work+0x226/0x6d0 [40958.179609] worker_thread+0x19e/0x340 [40958.180158] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [40958.180702] kthread+0x10f/0x250 [40958.181238] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [40958.181774] ret_from_fork+0x251/0x2b0 [40958.182307] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [40958.182834] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [40958.183370] </TASK>

Fix the error handling in the init_task to make sure the service and mailbox tasks are disabled if the error happens during load. These are started in idpf_vc_core_init(), which spawns the init_task and has no wa…

USN-8570-1 — linux-gcp-6.17, linux-realtime-6.17 vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-gcp-6.17, Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:24.04:LTS: linux-realtime-6.17

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - Foo-over-UDP (FOU); - ARM64 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Drivers core; - Null block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Counter interface drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - DPLL subsystem; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - On-Chip Interconnect management framework; - IOMMU subsystem; - IRQ chip drivers; - Modular ISDN driver; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - UACCE accelerator framework; - MMC subsystem; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - NVME drivers; - Device tree and open firmware driver; - PHY drivers; - x86 platform drivers; - i.MX PM domains; - SCSI subsystem; - SLIMbus drivers; - SPI subsystem; - TTY drivers; - USB Host Controller drivers; - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - EFI Variable file system; - Ext4 file system; - File systems infrastructure; - FUSE (File system in Userspace); - Network file systems library; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - SMB network file system; - Memory Management; - Memory management; - Scheduler infrastructure; - Tracing infrast…