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CVE-2026-90084

octeontx2-vf: fix workqueue and netdev race in probe/remove PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-vf: fix workqueue and netdev race in probe/remove Initialize the VF workqueue before register_netdev() so ndo_set_rx_mode does not queue work on a NULL workqueue. Unregister the netdev before destroying the workqueue, and add proper probe error cleanup.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected cbc100aa220556d056272f07dc735c9758089da9 before bdc530baf079eee104f9ea5d83815e798ea155df; affected cbc100aa220556d056272f07dc735c9758089da9 before 00dda563f4963f28fab46d09b912d68268b8e7a5; affected cbc100aa220556d056272f07dc735c9758089da9 before 42a139332ce81a907dac987f1494d30e0a8ab149; affected cbc100aa220556d056272f07dc735c9758089da9 before ef42c9e922dfa806576d9d82867da2f3cd76b3ca; affected cbc100aa220556d056272f07dc735c9758089da9 before 3ba97ff4f873481d370bee7f7dfb87f8296af9be
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.14; unaffected 0 before 5.14; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.114 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.52 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.6 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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