CVE 7.8 HIGH

bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down_CVE-2026-45970

7.8 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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

bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down

The ALB RX path may access rx_hashtbl concurrently with bond
teardown. During rapid bond up/down cycles, rlb_deinitialize()
frees rx_hashtbl while RX handlers are still running, leading
to a null pointer dereference detected by KASAN.

However, the root cause is that rlb_arp_recv() can still be accessed
after setting recv_probe to NULL, which is actually a use-after-free
(UAF) issue. That is the reason for using the referenced commit in the
Fixes tag.

[ 214.174138] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001d: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
[ 214.186478] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef]
[ 214.194933] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 2375 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 214.205907] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.14.0 01/14/2022
[ 214.214357] RIP: 0010:rlb_arp_recv+0x505/0xab0 [bonding]
[ 214.220320] Code: 0f 85 2b 05 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 40 0f b6 ed 48 c1 e5 06 49 03 ad 78 01 00 00 48 8d 7d 28 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6
04 02 84 c0 74 06 0f 8e 12 05 00 00 80 7d 28 00 0f 84 8c 00
[ 214.241280] RSP: 0018:ffffc900073d8870 EFLAGS: 00010206
[ 214.247116] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888168556822 RCX: ffff88816855681e
[ 214.255082] RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: 00000000000000e8
[ 214.263048] RBP: 00000000000000c0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffed11192021c8
[ 214.271013] R10: ffff8888c9010e43 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 1ffff92000e7b119
[ 214.278978] R13: ffff8888c9010e00 R14: ffff888168556822 R15: ffff888168556810
[ 214.286943] FS: 00007f85d2d9cb80(0000) GS:ffff88886ccb3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 214.295966] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 214.302380] CR2: 00007f0d047b5e34 CR3: 00000008a1c2e002 CR4: 00000000001726f0
[ 214.310347] Call Trace:
[ 214.313070] <IRQ>
[ 214.315318] ? __pfx_rlb_arp_recv+0x10/0x10 [bonding]
[ 214.320975] bond_handle_frame+0x166/0xb60 [bonding]
[ 214.326537] ? __pfx_bond_handle_frame+0x10/0x10 [bonding]
[ 214.332680] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x576/0x2710
[ 214.339199] ? __pfx_arp_process+0x10/0x10
[ 214.343775] ? sched_balance_find_src_group+0x98/0x630
[ 214.349513] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
[ 214.356513] ? arp_rcv+0x307/0x690
[ 214.360311] ? __pfx_arp_rcv+0x10/0x10
[ 214.364499] ? __lock_acquire+0x58c/0xbd0
[ 214.368975] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xae/0x1b0
[ 214.374518] ? __pfx___netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x10/0x10
[ 214.380743] ? lock_acquire+0x10b/0x140
[ 214.385026] process_backlog+0x3f1/0x13a0
[ 214.389502] ? process_backlog+0x3aa/0x13a0
[ 214.394174] __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x9f/0x370
[ 214.399233] net_rx_action+0x8c1/0xe60
[ 214.403423] ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10
[ 214.408193] ? lock_acquire.part.0+0xbd/0x260
[ 214.413058] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x6c/0x540
[ 214.417540] ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70
[ 214.421920] handle_softirqs+0x1fd/0x860
[ 214.426302] ? __pfx_handle_softirqs+0x10/0x10
[ 214.431264] ? __neigh_event_send+0x2d6/0xf50
[ 214.436131] do_softirq+0xb1/0xf0
[ 214.439830] </IRQ>

The issue is reproducible by repeatedly running
ip link set bond0 up/down while receiving ARP messages, where
rlb_arp_recv() can race with rlb_deinitialize() and dereference
a freed rx_hashtbl entry.

Fix this by setting recv_probe to NULL and then calling
synchronize_net() to wait for any concurrent RX processing to finish.
This ensures that no RX handler can access rx_hashtbl after it is freed
in bond_alb_deinitialize().

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-45970
Source Linux
Published May 27, 2026 at 12:18
Modified May 30, 2026 at 10:46

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Affected Versions Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3aba891dde3842d89ad022237b99c1ed308040b0
Linux Linux 3.0

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