CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80866
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: avoid busy looping in tipc_exit_net()
Blamed commit introduced a busy-wait loop in tipc_exit_net()
to wait for pending UDP bearer cleanup works to complete:
while (atomic_read(&tn->wq_count))
cond_resched();
This loop can busy-wait for a long time if cond_resched() is a NOP. This
typically happens if the netns exit is executed by a high priority task,
or under kernels configured without preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE). In
such cases, it wastes CPU cycles and can lead to soft lockups.
Fix this by replacing the busy loop with wait_var_event(), allowing the
thread to sleep properly until the work queue count reaches zero.
Accordingly, update cleanup_bearer() to use atomic_dec_and_test() and
wake_up_var() to wake up the waiter when the count drops to zero.
This uses the global wait queue hash table, avoiding the need to bloat
struct tipc_net with a wait_queue_head_t. The atomic_dec_and_test()
provides the necessary memory barrier to ensure the wakeup is not missed.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/110bb16d37bdba03213156c0df37e7119c190936 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/522d1d950b9e3b68190a6de7534827c8dccedb73 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7672973957e3e20780afe5937a9fec70b72bc060 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99b82c8452887408ea908fdfa5df33c4a5dfa88f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1481c94e74c955e0448ddf46b8615a44d840c1e git.kernel.org