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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98544"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:12.964Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:20.477Z"
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-2026-98544"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98544.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98544"
title: "bna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown\n\nbna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown\n\nbnad_pci_remove() and the probe disable_ioceth path call\ntimer_delete_sync() for ioc_timer, sem_timer and hb_timer, but not for\niocpf_timer.  bnad_iocpf_timeout() then takes bnad-\u003ebna_lock after\nfree_netdev() has freed the struct bnad.\n\nDeleting iocpf_timer last does not fix this.  sem_timer and\niocpf_timer rearm each other: bnad_iocpf_sem_timeout() can arm\niocpf_timer, and bnad_iocpf_timeout() arms sem_timer from\nbfa_ioc_hw_sem_get() when the semaphore is busy.\ntimer_delete_sync() only waits out its own callback.\nbnad_ioceth_disable() can time out and leave that callback live.\n\nShut all four IOC timers down with timer_shutdown_sync() on both\npaths, so a later mod_timer() is ignored.\n\nThis issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research\nwhile reviewing kernel code."
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