CVE-2026-90056 PUBLISHED

net: fec: only stop PTP if it was initialized

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

net: fec: only stop PTP if it was initialized

fec_ptp_init() is only called when fep->bufdesc_ex is available. However, fec_probe() unconditionally calls fec_ptp_stop() on the failed_init path, and fec_drv_remove() unconditionally calls fec_ptp_stop() during device removal.

Check fep->bufdesc_ex before calling fec_ptp_stop() in both paths to avoid stopping PTP when it was not initialized.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 0dc8b3a395c3a749ab62c078f2fd54a402ae7e2b (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 1973f108c481fab9bdc7daa6c77442af4a7388ab (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 0602a4c238d2b6ed6e2bf5fa8ef7fa0203883dac (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 7566789664813c1778f0d4b7e0539fd863ea450c (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 383f699a86fd04458dc47d10578c17e94f63d92f (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 1f9639caeece703012bdb23975ebedf70f426269 (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to 5975009651c4e5ec1492612962d0dd3dc86f6bda (excl.)
  • affected from 32cba57ba74be58589aeb4cb6496183e46a5e3e5 to dd890ae29299636fb037276fc1b5238698d08b03 (excl.)
  • Version 9561b28349a22c808c3ce25eaed4d132104bafb7 is affected
  • affected from 3.18.99 to 3.19 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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