CVE-2026-98881 (GCVE-0-2026-98881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 11:37 – Updated: 2026-10-23 11:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()
This rcu_barrier() came from a time call_rcu() calls were used in
net/bridge/br_multicast.c.
Now kfree_rcu() is there, we can remove this problematic rcu_barrier()
which causes extreme RTNL pressure in many syzbot reports.
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:
<TASK>
[<ffffffff81914eaa>] context_switch+0xf2a/0x1730 kernel/sched/core.c:6483
[<ffffffff81201143>] __schedule+0x1133/0x43a0 kernel/sched/core.c:8411
[<ffffffff8120446b>] __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:8514 [inline]
[<ffffffff8120446b>] schedule+0xab/0x260 kernel/sched/core.c:8529
[<ffffffff8121a093>] schedule_timeout+0xc3/0x2b0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
[<ffffffff81205347>] do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
[<ffffffff81205347>] __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:121 [inline]
[<ffffffff81205347>] wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:132 [inline]
[<ffffffff81205347>] wait_for_completion+0x2c7/0x5d0 kernel/sched/completion.c:153
[<ffffffff81b8f27f>] rcu_barrier+0x49f/0x620 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3888
[<ffffffff860091b3>] br_multicast_dev_del+0x303/0x350 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:4459
[<ffffffff85fb5dbc>] br_dev_uninit+0x1c/0x40 net/bridge/br_device.c:157
[<ffffffff8568058c>] unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1c1c/0x2300 net/core/dev.c:12599
[<ffffffff8562be43>] ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline]
[<ffffffff8562be43>] ops_undo_list+0x3d3/0x940 net/core/net_namespace.c:248
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 35f9f11740515a10b084adfb1ce691351f2452ab
(git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0443f6aac6bf6a91e406273fdda11497cef6ad07 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ac0e823a228f94ad9d7a3d876cc07e59a7afb806 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f0018acf0b66f93a292667c9a9c2a26c570cf270 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 372ee8fbe0f796031c60f676ec90f0788c26523d (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 39679927fa7aaf4601119f7234342d1b5d4f6f84 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 25ae123db10ba9ab890b56bcdb0a4363aee8529a (git) Affected: 0 , < 5.10.271 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 5.15.222 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 6.1.189 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 6.6.158 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 6.12.111 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 6.18.53 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Unaffected:
5.10.271 , ≤ 5.10.*
(semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.222 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.