CVE-2026-31509 (GCVE-0-2026-31509)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 13:54 – Updated: 2026-04-22 13:54
VLAI?
Title
nfc: nci: fix circular locking dependency in nci_close_device
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < 7ed00a3edc8597fe2333f524401e2889aa1b5edf
(git)
Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < 5eef9ebec7f5738f12cadede3545c05b34bf5ac3 (git) Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < ca54e904a071aa65ef3ad46ba42d51aaac6b73b4 (git) Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < eb435d150ca74b4d40f77f1a2266f3636ed64a79 (git) Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < 1edc12d2bbcb7a8d0f1088e6fccb9d8c01bb1289 (git) Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < d89b74bf08f067b55c03d7f999ba0a0e73177eb3 (git) Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < 09143c0e8f3b03517e6233aad42f45c794d8df8e (git) Affected: 6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 , < 4527025d440ce84bf56e75ce1df2e84cb8178616 (git) |
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