CVE-2026-98489 — net: atl1c: fix soft lockup on out-of-range tpd_cons read

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: atl1c: fix soft lockup on out-of-range tpd_cons read

The hardware can report an out-of-range tpd_cons (seen as 0xffff) while the PCIe link/MAC is resetting. An out-of-range value can never be reached and the loop below would spin forever. To avoid a soft lockup treat it as "nothing new to clean" instead.

Reproduced on two machines, same NIC (Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0, 4-port), triggered by rebooting a Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIe card that the ports are directly linked to:

- Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, kernel 7.0.0-31-generic. The link-flap precursor, before the lockup was captured with a full trace elsewhere:

atl1c 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0f0: NETDEV WATCHDOG: CPU: 4: transmit queue 2 timed out 489984 ms atl1c 0000:05:00.0: MAC state machine can't be idle since disabled for 10ms second atl1c 0000:05:00.0: atl1c: enp5s0f0 NIC Link is Up<65535 Mbps Full Duplex>

65535 (0xffff) here is the same value tpd_cons reads back once the loop below gets stuck.

- Proxmox VE, kernel 7.0.14-11-pve. Same NIC/trigger, this time caught by the soft lockup watchdog with a full stack trace:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#12 stuck for 354s! [napi/eth%d-0:329] CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 329 Comm: napi/eth%d-0 Tainted: P O L 7.0.14-11-pve #1 PREEMPT(lazy) RIP: 0010:atl1c_clean_tx+0x142/0x2d0 [atl1c] Call Trace: <TASK> __napi_poll+0x32/0x1e0 napi_threaded_poll_loop+0x286/0x2e0 napi_thr…

USN-8959-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-7.0, linux-ibm, linux-oracle vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-hwe-7.0, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-oracle

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - USB Gadget drivers; - Memory management; - Multiple devices driver; - ARM64 architecture; - EROFS file system; - Networking core; - eXpress Data Path; - ARM32 architecture; - M68K architecture; - MIPS architecture; - OpenRISC architecture; - PA-RISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - User-Mode Linux (UML); - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - Intel NPU Driver; - Speakup Console Speech Driver; - ACPI drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Auxiliary display drivers; - Drivers core; - Micron PCIe SSD driver; - Null block device driver; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Bus devices; - AMD CDX bus driver; - Hardware random number generator core; - Character device driver; - TPM device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Clocksource drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - CPU idle management framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; - DAX dirext access to differentiated memory framework; - DIBS (Direct Internal Buffer Sharing) drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;…

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CVE-2026-98489 — net: atl1c: fix soft lockup on out-of-range tpd_cons read

USN-8959-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-7.0, linux-ibm, linux-oracle vulnerabilities