# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45907"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:20.424Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:20.424Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45907"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45907.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45907"
title: "net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks\n\nIn the mentioned \"Fixes\" commit, various work tasks triggering devlink\nhealth reporter recovery were switched to use netdev_trylock to protect\nagainst concurrent tear down of the channels being recovered. But this\nhad the side effect of introducing potential deadlocks because of\nincorrect lock ordering.\n\nThe correct lock order is described by the init flow:\nprobe_one -\u003e mlx5_init_one (acquires devlink lock)\n-\u003e mlx5_init_one_devl_locked -\u003e mlx5_register_device\n-\u003e mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked -...-\u003e mlx5e_probe -\u003e _mlx5e_probe\n-\u003e register_netdev (acquires rtnl lock)\n-\u003e register_netdevice (acquires netdev lock)\n=\u003e devlink lock -\u003e rtnl lock -\u003e netdev lock.\n\nBut in the current recovery flow, the order is wrong:\nmlx5e_tx_err_cqe_work (acquires netdev lock)\n-\u003e mlx5e_reporter_tx_err_cqe -\u003e mlx5e_health_report\n-\u003e devlink_health_report (acquires devlink lock =\u003e boom!)\n-\u003e devlink_health_reporter_recover\n-\u003e mlx5e_tx_reporter_recover -\u003e mlx5e_tx_reporter_recover_from_ctx\n-\u003e mlx5e_tx_reporter_err_cqe_recover\n\nThe same pattern exists in:\nmlx5e_reporter_rx_timeout\nmlx5e_reporter_tx_ptpsq_unhealthy\nmlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout\n\nFix these by moving the netdev_trylock calls from the work handlers\nlower in the call stack, in the respective recovery functions, where\nthey are actually necessary."
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