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CVE-2026-43468

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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net/mlx5: Fix deadlock between devlink lock and esw->wq

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.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45eaffectedgit0de867f6e34eae6907b367fd152c55e61cb98608UnavailableNone listed
f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45eaffectedgit957d2a58f7f8ebcbdd0a85935e0d2675134b890dUnavailableNone listed
f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45eaffectedgit3c7313cb41b1b427078440364d2f042c276a1c0bUnavailableNone listed
f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45eaffectedgit4a7838bebc38374f74baaf88bf2cf8d439a92923UnavailableNone listed
f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45eaffectedgit90e7e5d14d0bd25ffd019a3aa39d9f1c05fedbe1UnavailableNone listed
f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45eaffectedgitaed763abf0e905b4b8d747d1ba9e172961572f57UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.0affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.0UnavailableNone listed
6.1.167unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.130unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.78unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.19unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
6.19.9unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.19.*None listed
7.0unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed