CVE-2025-39796 – net: lapbether: ignore ops-locked netdevs

CVE ID : CVE-2025-39796

Published : Sept. 12, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 29 minutes ago

Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: lapbether: ignore ops-locked netdevs

Syzkaller managed to trigger lock dependency in xsk_notify via
register_netdevice. As discussed in [0], using register_netdevice
in the notifiers is problematic so skip adding lapbeth for ops-locked
devices.

xsk_notifier+0xa4/0x280 net/xdp/xsk.c:1645
notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x410 kernel/notifier.c:85
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x140 net/core/dev.c:2230
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline] unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0xf9d/0x2700 net/core/dev.c:12077
unregister_netdevice_many net/core/dev.c:12140 [inline] unregister_netdevice_queue+0x305/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:11984
register_netdevice+0x18f1/0x2270 net/core/dev.c:11149
lapbeth_new_device drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c:420 [inline] lapbeth_device_event+0x5b1/0xbe0 drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c:462
notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x410 kernel/notifier.c:85
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x140 net/core/dev.c:2230
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline] __dev_notify_flags+0x12c/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:9497
netif_change_flags+0x108/0x160 net/core/dev.c:9526
dev_change_flags+0xba/0x250 net/core/dev_api.c:68
devinet_ioctl+0x11d5/0x1f50 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1200
inet_ioctl+0x3a7/0x3f0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1001

0: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250625140357.6203d0af@kernel.org/

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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