CVE-2026-63989
CVE-2026-63989CVE-2026-63989
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bridge: Fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path
Since the introduction of the netlink configuration path for bridge
ports in commit 25c71c75ac87 ("bridge: bridge port parameters over
netlink"), br_setport() was always called with the bridge lock held
around it. Back then this decision made sense: The bridge lock protects
the STP state of the bridge and its ports and at that time the function
only processed three STP related netlink attributes (cost, priority and
state).
Nowadays, br_setport() processes a lot more attributes and most of them
do not need the bridge lock:
* Bridge flags: Only require RTNL. Read locklessly by the data path.
Annotations can be added in net-next.
* FDB port flushing: Only requires the FDB lock.
* Multicast attributes: Only require the multicast lock.
* Group forward mask: Only requires RTNL. Read locklessly by the data
path. Annotations can be added in net-next.
* Backup port
Scoring
| Last modified | 2026-07-19 |