CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68449
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-08-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: sata_dwc_460ex: fix infinite loop in NCQ tag completion bit-scanning
The hand-rolled bit-scanning loop in the NCQ completion path has an
infinite loop bug. When tag_mask has only high bits set (e.g.
0x80000000), the inner while loop left-shifts tag_mask until it
overflows to 0. At that point !(0 & 1) is always true and 0 <<= 1
stays 0, causing an infinite loop in hardirq context with a spinlock
held.
Replace the open-coded bit-scanning with __ffs() which correctly
finds the least significant set bit and is bounded by the width of
the argument.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1842d45f461a78988254631893329bdf4596e954 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29b916d3556bd12a95be7c56ca391b8cd572f8be git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c6e64cae2b2dab32ad9099faa339f6a72c0ce16 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c5de0d8ab6824cfdadcbbe1be4c6c9d9f4c1f80 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2130f6553f4a5cbdc259de069600117a995f197 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d72e8089dc332ac48293512ef0de77cbe0e04d25 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea9fa4dabe476f85fe73df30a6ab61a23c22fda4 git.kernel.org