CVE-2026-23175
mediumVulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: cpsw: Execute ndo_set_rx_mode callback in a work queue
Commit 1767bb2d47b7 ("ipv6: mcast: Don't hold RTNL for
IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and MCAST_JOIN_GROUP.") removed the RTNL lock for
IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and MCAST_JOIN_GROUP operations. However, this
change triggered the following call trace on my BeagleBone Black board:
WARNING: net/8021q/vlan_core.c:236 at vlan_for_each+0x120/0x124, CPU#0: rpcbind/481
RTNL: assertion failed at net/8021q/vlan_core.c (236)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 997 PID: 481 Comm: rpcbind Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7-next-20260130-yocto-standard+ #35 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree)
Call trace:
unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x28/0x2c
show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x30/0x38
dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0xb8/0x11c
__warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x130/0x194
warn_slowpath_fmt from vlan_for_each+0x120/0x124
vlan_for_each from cpsw_add_mc_addr+0x54/0x98
cpsw_add_mc_addr from __hw_addr_ref_sync_dev+0xc4/0xec
__hw_addr_ref_sync_dev from __dev_mc_add+0x78/0x88
__dev_mc_add from igmp6_group_added+0x84/0xec
igmp6_group_added from __ipv6_dev_mc_inc+0x1fc/0x2f0
__ipv6_dev_mc_inc from __ipv6_sock_mc_join+0x124/0x1b4
__ipv6_sock_mc_join from do_ipv6_setsockopt+0x84c/0x1168
do_ipv6_setsockopt from ipv6_setsockopt+0x88/0xc8
ipv6_setsockopt from do_sock_setsockopt+0xe8/0x19c
do_sock_setsockopt from __sys_setsockopt+0x84/0xac
__sys_setsockopt from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
This trace occurs because vlan_for_each() is called within
cpsw_ndo_set_rx_mode(), which expects the RTNL lock to be held.
Since modifying vlan_for_each() to operate without the RTNL lock is not
straightforward, and because ndo_set_rx_mode() is invoked both with and
without the RTNL lock across different code paths, simply adding
rtnl_lock() in cpsw_ndo_set_rx_mode() is not a viable solution.
To resolve this issue, we opt to execute the actual processing within
a work queue, following the approach used by the icssg-prueth driver.
Please note: To reproduce this issue, I manually reverted the changes to
am335x-bone-common.dtsi from commit c477358e66a3 ("ARM: dts: am335x-bone:
switch to new cpsw switch drv") in order to revert to the legacy cpsw
driver.
Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9