Bug 2516506 (CVE-2026-72113) - CVE-2026-72113 kernel: can: bcm: add missing device refcount for CAN filter removal
Summary: CVE-2026-72113 kernel: can: bcm: add missing device refcount for CAN filter r...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72113
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:16 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 22:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:16:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: bcm: add missing device refcount for CAN filter removal

sashiko-bot remarked a problem with a concurrent device unregistration
in isotp.c which also is present in the bcm.c code. A former fix for raw.c
commit c275a176e4b6 ("can: raw: add missing refcount for memory leak fix")
introduced a netdevice_tracker which solves the issue for bcm.c too.

bcm_release(), bcm_delete_rx_op() and bcm_notifier() relied on
dev_get_by_index(ifindex) to re-find the device for an rx_op before
unregistering its filter. If a concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER has already
unlisted the device from the ifindex table, that lookup fails and
can_rx_unregister() is silently skipped, leaving a stale CAN filter
pointing at the soon-to-be-freed bcm_op/socket.

Hold a netdev_hold()/netdev_put() tracked reference on op->rx_reg_dev
from the moment the rx filter is registered in bcm_rx_setup() until it
is unregistered in bcm_rx_unreg(), and use that reference directly in
bcm_release() and bcm_delete_rx_op() instead of re-looking the device
up by ifindex.


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