eth: bnxt: avoid deadlock when canceling IRQ affinity notifier
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: bnxt: avoid deadlock when canceling IRQ affinity notifier Unregistering IRQ affinity notifiers waits for the callback synchronously. bnxt takes the netdev instance lock in the notifier (to restart the queue) and cancels the work under the same lock. This may obviously deadlock. Move the restart to the async service task. The queue restart isn't super time sensitive. Store the new TPH tag, schedule the task. Safely canceling the service task is already ironed out. In bnxt_request_irq() the order of registering notifier, affinity and initial TPH programming has to be inverted. I think it was racy previously since user may trigger an update as soon as notifier is installed. There's a small known gap - if pcie_tph_get_cpu_st() fails at init and the target tag is 0 we may miss programming the entry. This does not seem worth fixing, the code has skip-on-failure all over the place, anyway.
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- Aug 26, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 27, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 40th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CNA vs NVD score
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- CNA · Linux
- 7.5
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Affected systems
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Versions reported by the vendor
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Linux Linux
- 6.15affected
- c214410c47d6ec3128143370747d9e388bab21d7 and later · before 8b1118fc5a5d2cdc21cc07b5106921ad4f77c544affected · git
- c214410c47d6ec3128143370747d9e388bab21d7 and later · before 51e96fa31f7e7eac2cba8f854e24d36600cc040baffected · git
- before 6.15not affected · semver
- 7.1.10 and later · up to and including 7.1.*not affected · semver
- 7.2 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix
Package-level exposure
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| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.1.10-1 | 7.1.10-1 |
Same product
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Which version to upgrade to
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| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 51e96fa31f7e7eac2cba8f854e24d36600cc040b | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 8b1118fc5a5d2cdc21cc07b5106921ad4f77c544 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 7.1.10-1 · Debian:14 | Package registry (OSV) |
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Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-secondary
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/51e96fa31f7e7eac2cba8f854e24d36600cc040b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b1118fc5a5d2cdc21cc07b5106921ad4f77c544
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