Bug 2516647 (CVE-2026-72229) - CVE-2026-72229 kernel: batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure
Summary: CVE-2026-72229 kernel: batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72229
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:23:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: clean untagged VLAN on netdev registration failure

When an mesh interface is registered, it creates an untagged struct
batadv_meshif_vlan on top of it via the NETDEV_REGISTER notifier. But in
this process, another receiver of this notification can veto the
registration. The netdev registration will be aborted because of this veto.

The register_netdevice() call will try to clean up the net_device using
unregister_netdevice_queue() - which only uses the .priv_destructor to
free private resources. In this situation, .dellink will not be called.

The cleanup of the untagged batadv_meshif_vlan must thefore be done in the
destructor to avoid a leak of this object.


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