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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98692"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:46:16.794Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:24:02.145Z"
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-2026-98692"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98692.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98692"
title: "thunderbolt: Make the DP tunnel activation callback mandatory"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthunderbolt: Make the DP tunnel activation callback mandatory\n\ntb_tunnel_alloc_dp() takes an optional callback which is run from\ndprx_work once the DPRX capabilities read has completed. Without that\ncallback tb_dp_dprx_start() reads the capabilities synchronously and\nnever queues the work. It however always takes a tunnel reference which\nis only dropped by dprx_work itself or by tb_dp_dprx_stop() when\ncancel_delayed_work() actually canceled that work. That reference is\nthus leaked for every tunnel without a callback.\n\nThe only tunnels without one are those from tb_tunnel_discover_dp(),\nwhich are activated again when restoring from hibernation.\nPass the callback to tb_tunnel_discover_dp() as well and drop the\nsynchronous path such that the DPRX capabilities are always read from\ndprx_work. Hibernation restore then also no longer blocks for up to 12\nseconds while waiting for that read to complete.\n\nAlso fix up the KUnit tests."
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