CVE-2026-43468 (GCVE-0-2026-43468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 14:22 – Updated: 2026-05-08 14:22
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Title
net/mlx5: Fix deadlock between devlink lock and esw->wq
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix deadlock between devlink lock and esw->wq esw->work_queue executes esw_functions_changed_event_handler -> esw_vfs_changed_event_handler and acquires the devlink lock. .eswitch_mode_set (acquires devlink lock in devlink_nl_pre_doit) -> mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set -> mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked -> mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister -> flush_workqueue deadlocks when esw_vfs_changed_event_handler executes. Fix that by no longer flushing the work to avoid the deadlock, and using a generation counter to keep track of work relevance. This avoids an old handler manipulating an esw that has undergone one or more mode changes: - the counter is incremented in mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister. - the counter is read and passed to the ephemeral mlx5_host_work struct. - the work handler takes the devlink lock and bails out if the current generation is different than the one it was scheduled to operate on. - mlx5_eswitch_cleanup does the final draining before destroying the wq. No longer flushing the workqueue has the side effect of maybe no longer cancelling pending vport_change_handler work items, but that's ok since those are disabled elsewhere: - mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked disables the vport eq notifier. - mlx5_esw_vport_disable disarms the HW EQ notification and marks vport->enabled under state_lock to false to prevent pending vport handler from doing anything. - mlx5_eswitch_cleanup destroys the workqueue and makes sure all events are disabled/finished.
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Linux Linux Affected: f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e , < 0de867f6e34eae6907b367fd152c55e61cb98608 (git)
Affected: f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e , < 957d2a58f7f8ebcbdd0a85935e0d2675134b890d (git)
Affected: f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e , < 3c7313cb41b1b427078440364d2f042c276a1c0b (git)
Affected: f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e , < 4a7838bebc38374f74baaf88bf2cf8d439a92923 (git)
Affected: f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e , < 90e7e5d14d0bd25ffd019a3aa39d9f1c05fedbe1 (git)
Affected: f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e , < aed763abf0e905b4b8d747d1ba9e172961572f57 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.19 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.9 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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