Bug 2554964 (CVE-2026-98544)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98544 kernel: bna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Brocade 10Gb Ethernet (bna) driver. During device removal or shutdown, internal timers can rearm each other and continue executing after associated driver data structures have been released. A local user with administrative privileges could exploit this race condition during device teardown, triggering a use-after-free flaw that causes a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:36:10 UTC

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

bna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown

bna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown

bnad_pci_remove() and the probe disable_ioceth path call
timer_delete_sync() for ioc_timer, sem_timer and hb_timer, but not for
iocpf_timer.  bnad_iocpf_timeout() then takes bnad->bna_lock after
free_netdev() has freed the struct bnad.

Deleting iocpf_timer last does not fix this.  sem_timer and
iocpf_timer rearm each other: bnad_iocpf_sem_timeout() can arm
iocpf_timer, and bnad_iocpf_timeout() arms sem_timer from
bfa_ioc_hw_sem_get() when the semaphore is busy.
timer_delete_sync() only waits out its own callback.
bnad_ioceth_disable() can time out and leave that callback live.

Shut all four IOC timers down with timer_shutdown_sync() on both
paths, so a later mod_timer() is ignored.

This issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research
while reviewing kernel code.