CVE-2026-53323

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: remove redundant netdev_lock_ops() from conduit ethtool ops

DSA replaces the conduit (master) device's ethtool_ops with its own wrappers that aggregate stats from both the conduit and DSA switch ports. Taking the lock again inside the DSA wrappers causes a deadlock.

Stumbled upon this when booting qemu with fbnic and CONFIG_NET_DSA_LOOP=y (which looks like some kind of testing device that auto-populates the ports of eth0). ethtool -i is enough to deadlock. This means we have basically zero coverage for DSA stuff with real ops locked devs.

Remove the redundant netdev_lock_ops()/netdev_unlock_ops() calls from the DSA conduit ethtool wrappers.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux2bcf4772e45adb00649a4e9cbff14b08a144f9e3 < 74d64ae4254e99ef8c8215b057a76edac82c5f99affected
LinuxLinux2bcf4772e45adb00649a4e9cbff14b08a144f9e3 < abe91fd045874d21834482adcd7a9693e7377056affected
LinuxLinux2bcf4772e45adb00649a4e9cbff14b08a144f9e3 < 0f99e0c3e19badaf3fdced0d3feba623e59eed41affected
LinuxLinux6.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.15unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.33 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.10 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

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