CVE-2026-31546 (GCVE-0-2026-31546)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 14:33 – Updated: 2026-04-24 14:33
VLAI?
Title
net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show rlb_clear_slave intentionally keeps RLB hash-table entries on the rx_hashtbl_used_head list with slave set to NULL when no replacement slave is available. However, bond_debug_rlb_hash_show visites client_info->slave without checking if it's NULL. Other used-list iterators in bond_alb.c already handle this NULL-slave state safely: - rlb_update_client returns early on !client_info->slave - rlb_req_update_slave_clients, rlb_clear_slave, and rlb_rebalance compare slave values before visiting - lb_req_update_subnet_clients continues if slave is NULL The following NULL deref crash can be trigger in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show: [ 1.289791] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 1.292058] RIP: 0010:bond_debug_rlb_hash_show (drivers/net/bonding/bond_debugfs.c:41) [ 1.293101] RSP: 0018:ffffc900004a7d00 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 1.293333] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888102b48200 RCX: ffff888102b48204 [ 1.293631] RDX: ffff888102b48200 RSI: ffffffff839daad5 RDI: ffff888102815078 [ 1.293924] RBP: ffff888102815078 R08: ffff888102b4820e R09: 0000000000000000 [ 1.294267] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888100f929c0 [ 1.294564] R13: ffff888100f92a00 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffc900004a7ed8 [ 1.294864] FS: 0000000001395380(0000) GS:ffff888196e75000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1.295239] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1.295480] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000102adc004 CR4: 0000000000772ef0 [ 1.295897] Call Trace: [ 1.296134] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:231) [ 1.296341] seq_read (fs/seq_file.c:164) [ 1.296493] full_proxy_read (fs/debugfs/file.c:378 (discriminator 1)) [ 1.296658] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:572) [ 1.296981] ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:717) [ 1.297132] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1)) [ 1.297325] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) Add a NULL check and print "(none)" for entries with no assigned slave.
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Linux Linux Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < 19f0fd87df0e5746b24f5caa465a66a8c6e6e241 (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < edacf1613f7b26423ebfa8b2892e7453c4235354 (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < 2ec2c777f357a83c3d503d8d9370c90b60f0ae63 (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < 0a3f8cd3f370247ded14d38d216b49dd30eade76 (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < 6a3bb74e25d79cbb15f67ef80f71e2b2bfe27ff4 (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < 017d674cf6930e9586a29ee808c7ca09d1396d07 (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < ec9762f0df2f9fbe3f40a3bfa8aab8b2f721466c (git)
Affected: caafa84251b886feb6cdf23d50e2cc99dcdaaaf3 , < 605b52497bf89b3b154674deb135da98f916e390 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.38
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.38 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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