# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31509"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:54:27.436Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:10:10.109Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31509"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31509.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31509"
title: "nfc: nci: fix circular locking dependency in nci_close_device"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: nci: fix circular locking dependency in nci_close_device\n\nnci_close_device() flushes rx_wq and tx_wq while holding req_lock.\nThis causes a circular locking dependency because nci_rx_work()\nrunning on rx_wq can end up taking req_lock too:\n\n  nci_rx_work -\u003e nci_rx_data_packet -\u003e nci_data_exchange_complete\n    -\u003e __sk_destruct -\u003e rawsock_destruct -\u003e nfc_deactivate_target\n    -\u003e nci_deactivate_target -\u003e nci_request -\u003e mutex_lock(&ndev-\u003ereq_lock)\n\nMove the flush of rx_wq after req_lock has been released.\nThis should safe (I think) because NCI_UP has already been cleared\nand the transport is closed, so the work will see it and return\n-ENETDOWN.\n\nNIPA has been hitting this running the nci selftest with a debug\nkernel on roughly 4% of the runs."
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