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      <title>CVE-2026-98881 — net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()</title>
      <link>https://db.gcve.eu/vuln/cve-2026-98881</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This rcu_barrier() came from a time call_rcu() calls were used in
net/bridge/br_multicast.c.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now kfree_rcu() is there, we can remove this problematic rcu_barrier()
which causes extreme RTNL pressure in many syzbot reports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INFO: task syz-executor:77945 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task kworker/u1024:5:36537.
task:kworker/u1024:5 state:D stack:24616 pid:36537 tgid:36537 ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000 last_sleep:612797637337
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
 &amp;lt;TASK&amp;gt;
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81914eaa&amp;gt;] context_switch+0xf2a/0x1730 kernel/sched/core.c:6483
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81201143&amp;gt;] __schedule+0x1133/0x43a0 kernel/sched/core.c:8411
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff8120446b&amp;gt;] __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:8514 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff8120446b&amp;gt;] schedule+0xab/0x260 kernel/sched/core.c:8529
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff8121a093&amp;gt;] schedule_timeout+0xc3/0x2b0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:121 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:132 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] wait_for_completion+0x2c7/0x5d0 kernel/sched/completion.c:153
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81b8f27f&amp;gt;] rcu_barrier+0x49f/0x620 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3888
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff860091b3&amp;gt;] br_multicast_dev_del+0x303/0x350 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:4459
  [&amp;lt;…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This rcu_barrier() came from a time call_rcu() calls were used in
net/bridge/br_multicast.c.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now kfree_rcu() is there, we can remove this problematic rcu_barrier()
which causes extreme RTNL pressure in many syzbot reports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INFO: task syz-executor:77945 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task kworker/u1024:5:36537.
task:kworker/u1024:5 state:D stack:24616 pid:36537 tgid:36537 ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000 last_sleep:612797637337
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
 &amp;lt;TASK&amp;gt;
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81914eaa&amp;gt;] context_switch+0xf2a/0x1730 kernel/sched/core.c:6483
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81201143&amp;gt;] __schedule+0x1133/0x43a0 kernel/sched/core.c:8411
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff8120446b&amp;gt;] __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:8514 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff8120446b&amp;gt;] schedule+0xab/0x260 kernel/sched/core.c:8529
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff8121a093&amp;gt;] schedule_timeout+0xc3/0x2b0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:121 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:132 [inline]
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81205347&amp;gt;] wait_for_completion+0x2c7/0x5d0 kernel/sched/completion.c:153
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff81b8f27f&amp;gt;] rcu_barrier+0x49f/0x620 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3888
  [&amp;lt;ffffffff860091b3&amp;gt;] br_multicast_dev_del+0x303/0x350 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:4459
  [&amp;lt;…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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