CVE-2026-97963 PUBLISHED

net: stmmac: initialize ptp_lock at probe time

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

net: stmmac: initialize ptp_lock at probe time

priv->ptp_lock is only initialized in stmmac_ptp_register(), which runs during __stmmac_open(). However, the lock is also used while the interface is down and has never been opened: tc_taprio_configure() invokes the PTP gettime64() callback to compute the EST base time when offloading a TAPRIO schedule, and stmmac_get_time() takes priv->ptp_lock. Using an uninitialized rwlock is undefined behaviour. Move the rwlock_init() to __stmmac_dvr_probe(), together with the other private locks, so that ptp_lock is always valid regardless of the interface state.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b60189e0392fa06348911077ef281eb2b1047b6a to 420315413b29635de1d4ea4142e410e6465260f3 (excl.)
  • affected from b60189e0392fa06348911077ef281eb2b1047b6a to 25cc0096efba83b4e0e6fa50f03e9543b41e9d3d (excl.)
  • affected from b60189e0392fa06348911077ef281eb2b1047b6a to b1986595cf827c38ff929e22fbc9ca8f76379306 (excl.)
  • affected from b60189e0392fa06348911077ef281eb2b1047b6a to 0338c68e22abd2ee509ec2e32508a50896618c32 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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