Bug 2536238 (CVE-2026-90224) - CVE-2026-90224 kernel: nfc: nci: fix double completion race in nci_data_exchange_complete
Summary: CVE-2026-90224 kernel: nfc: nci: fix double completion race in nci_data_excha...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90224
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 13:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:03:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: nci: fix double completion race in nci_data_exchange_complete

nci_close_device() and nci_rx_work can both call
nci_data_exchange_complete() concurrently.  After commit 4527025d440ce8
("nfc: nci: fix circular locking dependency in nci_close_device") moved
flush_workqueue(ndev->rx_wq) after mutex_unlock(&ndev->req_lock),
rx_work is no longer serialized with the explicit completion call in the
close path.  Both callers read the non-NULL callback pointer and invoke
rawsock_data_exchange_complete(), which calls sock_put() -- but only one
sock_hold() was taken, so the second sock_put() underflows the refcount
and frees the socket while it is still in use.

Replace the bare clear_bit(NCI_DATA_EXCHANGE) with
test_and_clear_bit() so that only the first caller proceeds to invoke
the callback.


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