CVE-2026-53231 (GCVE-0-2026-53231)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:39 – Updated: 2026-06-25 08:39
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Title
net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy We don't have support for PHY-driver SFP cages with the genphy code. On top of that, it was found by sashiko that running sfp_bus_add_upstream() for genphy deadlocks, as for genphy the PHY probing runs under RTNL, which isn't the case for non-genphy drivers. This problem was reproduced, and does lead to a deadlock on RTNL. Before the blamed commit, the phy_sfp_probe() call was made by individual PHY drivers, so there was no way to get to the SFP probing path when using genphy. Let's therefore only run phy_sfp_probe when not using genphy.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095 , < ef8d739eee6f85303cbecebc01eb72f063de74e0 (git)
Affected: bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095 , < 5a0082ec20a05ef2378410323a5089a8f1786f4a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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