Bug 2554964 (CVE-2026-98544) - CVE-2026-98544 kernel: bna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown
Summary: CVE-2026-98544 kernel: bna: prevent IOC timer rearm during teardown
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98544
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:36 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-19 23:17 UTC (History)
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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.


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