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CVE-2025-40140

net: usb: Remove disruptive netif_wake_queue in rtl8150_set_multicast PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: Remove disruptive netif_wake_queue in rtl8150_set_multicast syzbot reported WARNING in rtl8150_start_xmit/usb_submit_urb. This is the sequence of events that leads to the warning: rtl8150_start_xmit() { netif_stop_queue(); usb_submit_urb(dev->tx_urb); } rtl8150_set_multicast() { netif_stop_queue(); netif_wake_queue(); <-- wakes up TX queue before URB is done } rtl8150_start_xmit() { netif_stop_queue(); usb_submit_urb(dev->tx_urb); <-- double submission } rtl8150_set_multicast being the ndo_set_rx_mode callback should not be calling netif_stop_queue and notif_start_queue as these handle TX queue synchronization. The net core function dev_set_rx_mode handles the synchronization for rtl8150_set_multicast making it safe to remove these locks.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before cce3c0e21cdd15bcba5c35d3af1700186de8f187; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 1a08a37ac03d07a1608a1592791041cac979fbc3; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 54f8ef1a970a8376e5846ed90854decf7c00555d; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 114e05344763a102a8844efd96ec06ba99293ccd; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 6394bade9daab8e318c165fe43bba012bf13cd8e; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 6053e47bbf212b93c051beb4261d7d5a409d0ce3; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 9d72df7f5eac946f853bf49c428c4e87a17d91da; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 958baf5eaee394e5fd976979b0791a875f14a179
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.12; unaffected 0 before 2.6.12; unaffected 5.4.301 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.246 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.195 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.156 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.112 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.53 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.17.3 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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