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FKIE_CVE-2026-46031

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-27 14:17 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:52

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ks8851: Reinstate disabling of BHs around IRQ handler If the driver executes ks8851_irq() AND a TX packet has been sent, then the driver enables TX queue via netif_wake_queue() which schedules TX softirq to queue packets for this device. If CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y is set AND a packet has also been received by the MAC, then ks8851_rx_pkts() calls netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() to allocate SKBs for the received packets. If netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() is called with BH enabled, then local_bh_enable() at the end of netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() will trigger the pending softirq processing, which may ultimately call the .xmit callback ks8851_start_xmit_par(). The ks8851_start_xmit_par() will try to lock struct ks8851_net_par .lock spinlock, which is already locked by ks8851_irq() from which ks8851_start_xmit_par() was called. This leads to a deadlock, which is reported by the kernel, including a trace listed below. If CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is not set, then since commit 0913ec336a6c0 ("net: ks8851: Fix deadlock with the SPI chip variant") the deadlock can also be triggered without received packet in the RX FIFO. The pending softirqs will be processed on return from spin_unlock_bh(&ks->statelock) in ks8851_irq(), which triggers the deadlock as well. Fix the problem by disabling BH around critical sections, including the IRQ handler, thus preventing the net_tx_action() softirq from triggering during these critical sections. The net_tx_action() softirq is triggered once BH are re-enabled and at the end of the IRQ handler, once all the other IRQ handler actions have been completed. __schedule from schedule_rtlock+0x1c/0x34 schedule_rtlock from rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x548/0x904 rtlock_slowlock_locked from rt_spin_lock+0x60/0x9c rt_spin_lock from ks8851_start_xmit_par+0x74/0x1a8 ks8851_start_xmit_par from netdev_start_xmit+0x20/0x44 netdev_start_xmit from dev_hard_start_xmit+0xd0/0x188 dev_hard_start_xmit from sch_direct_xmit+0xb8/0x25c sch_direct_xmit from __qdisc_run+0x1f8/0x4ec __qdisc_run from qdisc_run+0x1c/0x28 qdisc_run from net_tx_action+0x1f0/0x268 net_tx_action from handle_softirqs+0x1a4/0x270 handle_softirqs from __local_bh_enable_ip+0xcc/0xe0 __local_bh_enable_ip from __alloc_skb+0xd8/0x128 __alloc_skb from __netdev_alloc_skb+0x3c/0x19c __netdev_alloc_skb from ks8851_irq+0x388/0x4d4 ks8851_irq from irq_thread_fn+0x24/0x64 irq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x178/0x28c irq_thread from kthread+0x12c/0x138 kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1962027a6d223f90df8b372929f9d1a8d321ad6a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21f1707a8e978558dcb11b053855521e32ac0eec	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/518040324067d8efaa2da1992297b7e7bf5640f4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c9fcac3c872224316714d0d8914d9af16c76a6d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/640a7631d31db87d5fa1b34cea44a99b6e78854b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be8aad558b4675f45b43080f81a9ffdeddea73a5	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.9

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CVE-2026-46031 (GCVE-0-2026-46031)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:56 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:29

Title

net: ks8851: Reinstate disabling of BHs around IRQ handler

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6665 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1962027a6d223f90d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/640a7631d31db87d5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/518040324067d8efa…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be8aad558b4675f45…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21f1707a8e978558d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c9fcac3c87222431…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 8a3ff43dcbab7c96f9e8cf2bd1049ab8d6e59545 , < 1962027a6d223f90df8b372929f9d1a8d321ad6a (git) Affected: ae87f661f3c1a3134a7ed86ab69bf9f12af88993 , < 640a7631d31db87d5fa1b34cea44a99b6e78854b (git) Affected: e0863634bf9f7cf36291ebb5bfa2d16632f79c49 , < 518040324067d8efaa2da1992297b7e7bf5640f4 (git) Affected: e0863634bf9f7cf36291ebb5bfa2d16632f79c49 , < be8aad558b4675f45b43080f81a9ffdeddea73a5 (git) Affected: e0863634bf9f7cf36291ebb5bfa2d16632f79c49 , < 21f1707a8e978558dcb11b053855521e32ac0eec (git) Affected: e0863634bf9f7cf36291ebb5bfa2d16632f79c49 , < 5c9fcac3c872224316714d0d8914d9af16c76a6d (git) Affected: 7e2901a2a9195da76111f351584bf77552a038f0 (git) Affected: 6.1.91 , < 6.1.175 (semver) Affected: 6.6.31 , < 6.6.140 (semver) Affected: 6.8.10 , < 6.9 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.86 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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