CVE-2026-98026 PUBLISHED

net: bridge: mcast: properly convert mglist to rcu

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: bridge: mcast: properly convert mglist to rcu

Sashiko reported a bug [1] that br_multicast_del_port_group unlists the port group not using proper rcu helper that preserves the next pointer and after that immediately frees the port group without waiting for rcu grace period. The only rcu walker of mglist is br_multicast_list_adjacent() and it turns out that function has always been buggy because mglist was never properly converted to RCU. Fix it by converting it to rcu and moving its initialization after eth_addr's. Initializing p->next can use RCU_INIT_POINTER because we have a barrier from the hlist_add_head_rcu call later, besides we're initializing an unpublished structure anyway.

[1] https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260826014200.362304-1-littleddfu%40gmail.com

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 07f8ac4a1e26e8283542cdaf658a6e2a12fd6980 to 98247c8264d2076f81fa114bdfa2c2271953ac7c (excl.)
  • affected from 07f8ac4a1e26e8283542cdaf658a6e2a12fd6980 to 38ab2a435001a3c4dbeb70a52f5921e1ccd66f55 (excl.)
  • affected from 07f8ac4a1e26e8283542cdaf658a6e2a12fd6980 to f7bf57e94a5d6214b87be08486cb33836fbfa573 (excl.)
  • affected from 07f8ac4a1e26e8283542cdaf658a6e2a12fd6980 to 4b772869a1e5f9da5cef5b9c722ec0aa424ee0a0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.16 (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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