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CVE-2026-93279

staging: octeon: add missing tasklet_kill in cvm_oct_tx_shutdown PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: octeon: add missing tasklet_kill in cvm_oct_tx_shutdown The TX cleanup tasklet can be scheduled by the watchdog IRQ handler to execute cvm_oct_tx_do_cleanup. There can be a pending tasklet in the queue which might run after the cvm_oct_remove() frees net_device structures, causing a use-after-free in cvm_oct_tx_do_cleanup() as it iterates cvm_oct_device[] which is an array of netdevice pointers. Add tasklet_kill() after free_irq() to ensure the tasklet is no longer scheduled or running before teardown proceeds.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before 32efcb6d5f4e3f030e7b0a3ba5c6c0684dd07486; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before d15226338dfaa84ffff142d32723cdf74d0c47c4; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before a77efd85e0d48c877f66d2bc3ab89cc1b8dacd19; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before b6365e4186322858a82c8713b1d0bd209c8e765a; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before 03d12490afd1198310ad0aba42462329832eb739; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before 2c0c9956596e48654bb4855e2a0742748a0826a7; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before 41a79bd9e5a74f8f483b3b206d10567912874fb4; affected 4898c560103fb8075c10a8e9d70e0ca26873075e before b9af44b0d20b2247c4eb0ea5cfca907d643eea50
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.34; unaffected 0 before 2.6.34; unaffected 5.10.270 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.221 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.188 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.157 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.110 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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