CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63969
- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in rt6_fill_node()
Sashiko reported this issue [1]. Apply the same fix as
commit f8d8ce1b515a ("ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()").
Writers holding tb6_lock can list_del_rcu(&rt->fib6_siblings)
without waiting for RCU readers; rt->fib6_siblings.next then still
points into the old ring and this softirq-side walker never reaches
&rt->fib6_siblings, causing a CPU stall. fib6_del_route() always
WRITE_ONCE()s rt->fib6_nsiblings to 0 before list_del_rcu(), so an
inside-loop check is a reliable detach signal.
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260526020227.4857-1-jiayuan.chen%40linux.dev
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/279853aec9f58d5cd723e6e5617c1c3337b30383 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e40de719ee76b8d96e2556ce36dbd3bd07bf37d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f72412bcf60144f252b0d6205106abf14344abc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b014a63d2f2c2c767762b548381882dfb1655529 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c65b1f60237daac7c56c2652e064cc566a45dc81 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc36a04621dcc2447dae428709207810b6c06e14 git.kernel.org