net/mlx5: Fix deadlock between devlink lock and esw->wq (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43468
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.09 % · percentile 0 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix deadlock between devlink lock and esw->wq esw->work_queue executes esw_functions_changed_event_handler -> esw_vfs_changed_event_handler and acquires the devlink lock. .eswitch_mode_set (acquires devlink lock in devlink_nl_pre_doit) -> mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set -> mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked -> mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister -> flush_workqueue deadlocks when esw_vfs_changed_event_handler executes. Fix that by no longer flushing the work to avoid the deadlock, and using a generation counter to keep track of work relevance. This avoids an old handler manipulating an esw that has undergone one or more mode changes: - the counter is incremented in mlx5_eswitch_event_handler_unregister. - the counter is read and passed to the ephemeral mlx5_host_work struct. - the work handler takes the devlink lock and bails out if the current generation is different than the one it was scheduled to operate on. - mlx5_eswitch_cleanup does the final draining before destroying the wq. No longer flushing the workqueue has the side effect of maybe no longer cancelling pending vport_change_handler work items, but that's ok since those are disabled elsewhere: - mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked disables the vport eq notifier. - mlx5_esw_vport_disable disarms the HW EQ notification and marks vport->enabled under state_lock to false to prevent pending vport handler from doing anything. - mlx5_eswitch_cleanup destroys the workqueue and makes sure all events are disabled/finished.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e < 0de867f6e34eae6907b367fd152c55e61cb98608 ; affected f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e < 957d2a58f7f8ebcbdd0a85935e0d2675134b890d ; affected f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e < 3c7313cb41b1b427078440364d2f042c276a1c0b ; affected f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e < 4a7838bebc38374f74baaf88bf2cf8d439a92923 ; affected f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e < 90e7e5d14d0bd25ffd019a3aa39d9f1c05fedbe1 ; affected f1bc646c9a06f09aad5d8bacb87103b5573ee45e < aed763abf0e905b4b8d747d1ba9e172961572f57
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.167 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.130 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.78 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.19 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD