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Tracker / CVE-2026-31509

CVE-2026-31509

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nci: fix circular locking dependency in nci_close_device nci_close_device() flushes rx_wq and tx_wq while holding req_lock. This causes a circular locking dependency because nci_rx_work() running on rx_wq can end up taking req_lock too: nci_rx_work -> nci_rx_data_packet -> nci_data_exchange_complete -> __sk_destruct -> rawsock_destruct -> nfc_deactivate_target -> nci_deactivate_target -> nci_request -> mutex_lock(&ndev->req_lock) Move the flush of rx_wq after req_lock has been released. This should safe (I think) because NCI_UP has already been cleared and the transport is closed, so the work will see it and return -ENETDOWN. NIPA has been hitting this running the nci selftest with a debug kernel on roughly 4% of the runs.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.2.1 → 5.10.253
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.203
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.168
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.21
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.11
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.131
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.80

Analysis

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