# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46031"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:40.357Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:29:14.460Z"
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-2026-46031"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46031.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46031"
title: "net: ks8851: Reinstate disabling of BHs around IRQ handler"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ks8851: Reinstate disabling of BHs around IRQ handler\n\nIf the driver executes ks8851_irq() AND a TX packet has been sent, then\nthe driver enables TX queue via netif_wake_queue() which schedules TX\nsoftirq to queue packets for this device.\n\nIf CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y is set AND a packet has also been received by\nthe MAC, then ks8851_rx_pkts() calls netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() to\nallocate SKBs for the received packets. If netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()\nis called with BH enabled, then local_bh_enable() at the end of\nnetdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() will trigger the pending softirq processing,\nwhich may ultimately call the .xmit callback ks8851_start_xmit_par().\nThe ks8851_start_xmit_par() will try to lock struct ks8851_net_par\n.lock spinlock, which is already locked by ks8851_irq() from which\nks8851_start_xmit_par() was called. This leads to a deadlock, which\nis reported by the kernel, including a trace listed below.\n\nIf CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is not set, then since commit 0913ec336a6c0\n(\"net: ks8851: Fix deadlock with the SPI chip variant\") the deadlock\ncan also be triggered without received packet in the RX FIFO. The\npending softirqs will be processed on return from\nspin_unlock_bh(&ks-\u003estatelock) in ks8851_irq(), which triggers the\ndeadlock as well.\n\nFix the problem by disabling BH around critical sections, including the\nIRQ handler, thus preventing the net_tx_action() softirq from triggering\nduring these critical sections. The net_tx_action() softirq is triggered\nonce BH are re-enabled and at the end of the IRQ handler, once all the\nother IRQ handler actions have been completed.\n\n __schedule from schedule_rtlock+0x1c/0x34\n schedule_rtlock from rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x548/0x904\n rtlock_slowlock_locked from rt_spin_lock+0x60/0x9c\n rt_spin_lock from ks8851_start_xmit_par+0x74/0x1a8\n ks8851_start_xmit_par from netdev_start_xmit+0x20/0x44\n netdev_start_xmit from dev_hard_start_xmit+0xd0/0x188\n dev_hard_start_xmit from sch_direct_xmit+0xb8/0x25c\n sch_direct_xmit from __qdisc_run+0x1f8/0x4ec\n __qdisc_run from qdisc_run+0x1c/0x28\n qdisc_run from net_tx_action+0x1f0/0x268\n net_tx_action from handle_softirqs+0x1a4/0x270\n handle_softirqs from __local_bh_enable_ip+0xcc/0xe0\n __local_bh_enable_ip from __alloc_skb+0xd8/0x128\n __alloc_skb from __netdev_alloc_skb+0x3c/0x19c\n __netdev_alloc_skb from ks8851_irq+0x388/0x4d4\n ks8851_irq from irq_thread_fn+0x24/0x64\n irq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x178/0x28c\n irq_thread from kthread+0x12c/0x138\n kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28"
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