# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97956"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:02.560Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:11:22.384Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97956"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97956.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97956"
title: "net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change()\n\nThis is a sibling fix of commit\nb84c5632c7b3 (\"net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register\").\nThere is netdev_lock_ops() in the upper callers, so using netif_open()\ninstead of dev_open().\n\nCall Trace:\n __schedule+0x2bb/0x650\n schedule+0x27/0xb0\n schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30\n __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x550/0xaf0\n __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20\n mutex_lock+0x3b/0x50\n dev_open+0x3b/0xe0\n net_failover_slave_name_change+0x22/0x40\n failover_event+0xd4/0x1e0\n notifier_call_chain+0x62/0xf0\n raw_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x30\n call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x50/0x80\n netif_change_name+0x200/0x330\n do_setlink.isra.0+0xb12/0xdf0\n ? security_capable+0x9a/0x1e0\n ? ns_capable+0x31/0x60\n rtnl_setlink+0x302/0x670\n ? netlink_recvmsg+0x296/0x340\n ? security_capable+0x9a/0x1e0\n ? __pfx_rtnl_setlink+0x10/0x10\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x384/0x460\n ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x61/0x120\n rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x30\n netlink_unicast+0x28f/0x3c0\n netlink_sendmsg+0x216/0x450\n __sys_sendto+0x222/0x230\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x40\n x64_sys_call+0x1d5d/0x2390\n do_syscall_64+0x105/0x5a0\n ? do_syscall_64+0x140/0x5a0\n ? exc_page_fault+0x94/0x1e0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7e4d784f5810bba76c4593791028e13cce4af547","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b20e66d2e52d3628db4dccc1a33f134e73375d5"},{"version":"7e4d784f5810bba76c4593791028e13cce4af547","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c49bfa2c5dbd89f7683c26fc08b11e7369ea11e5"},{"version":"7e4d784f5810bba76c4593791028e13cce4af547","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"985a663bf00799c1daf1c5789efa6406958780c8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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