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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63989" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:10.396Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:10.396Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-63989" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63989.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63989" title: "bridge: Fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbridge: Fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path\n\nSince the introduction of the netlink configuration path for bridge\nports in commit 25c71c75ac87 (\"bridge: bridge port parameters over\nnetlink\"), br_setport() was always called with the bridge lock held\naround it. Back then this decision made sense: The bridge lock protects\nthe STP state of the bridge and its ports and at that time the function\nonly processed three STP related netlink attributes (cost, priority and\nstate).\n\nNowadays, br_setport() processes a lot more attributes and most of them\ndo not need the bridge lock:\n\n* Bridge flags: Only require RTNL. Read locklessly by the data path.\n Annotations can be added in net-next.\n\n* FDB port flushing: Only requires the FDB lock.\n\n* Multicast attributes: Only require the multicast lock.\n\n* Group forward mask: Only requires RTNL. Read locklessly by the data\n path. Annotations can be added in net-next.\n\n* Backup port and NHID: Only require RTNL. Read locklessly by the data\n path.\n\nThis is a problem as the bridge calls dev_set_promiscuity() when certain\nbridge port flags change and this function can sleep since the commit\ncited below, resulting in a splat such as [1].\n\nFix this by reducing the scope of the bridge lock and only take it when\nprocessing the three STP related attributes that require it. This is\nconsistent with the multicast attributes where each attribute acquires\nthe multicast lock instead of having one critical section for all\nrelevant attributes.\n\n[1]\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:1262\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 356, name: bridge\npreempt_count: 201, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n2 locks held by bridge/356:\n#0: ffffffff919473a0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7002)\n#1: ffff888115072d58 (&br-\u003elock){+...}-{3:3}, at: br_setlink (./include/linux/spinlock.h:348 net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1117)\nPreemption disabled at:\n 0x0\nHardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\ndump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120)\n__might_resched.cold (kernel/sched/core.c:9163)\nnetif_rx_mode_run (net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:1262)\nnetif_rx_mode_sync (net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:1428)\ndev_set_promiscuity (net/core/dev_api.c:289)\nbr_manage_promisc (net/bridge/br_if.c:135 net/bridge/br_if.c:172)\nbr_port_flags_change (net/bridge/br_if.c:242 net/bridge/br_if.c:747)\nbr_setport (net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1000)\nbr_setlink (net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1118)\nrtnl_bridge_setlink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:5572)\nrtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7005)\nnetlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)\nnetlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)\nnetlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)\n__sock_sendmsg (net/socket.c:787 (discriminator 4) net/socket.c:802 (discriminator 4))\n____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2698)\n___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2752)\n__sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2784)\ndo_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"78cd408356fe3edbac66598772fd347bf3e32c1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9c2e609e8397bb57b4d73675f33a99183c4a0bd"},{"version":"78cd408356fe3edbac66598772fd347bf3e32c1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"803d39accfbdf223ccbb49684d5b5069b4c44586"},{"version":"78cd408356fe3edbac66598772fd347bf3e32c1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5eec4427b89c2fb2beac54920101e55a2f1c0c21"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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