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CVE-2026-80845 (GCVE-0-2026-80845)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-04 15:54 – Updated: 2026-09-04 15:54
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Title
xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work nat_keepalive_work() walks the state table while xfrm_state_walk() holds net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock. Its callback then acquires x->lock, which conflicts with the delete path taking the same locks in reverse order via xfrm_state_delete() and __xfrm_state_delete(). This creates an AB-BA deadlock that is reported by lockdep when a NAT keepalive worker races with SA deletion. Fix this by splitting the keepalive walk into two phases. First, collect the candidate states while the walk holds xfrm_state_lock and take a reference on each state. Then, after the walk completes, process each collected state and acquire x->lock without nesting it under xfrm_state_lock.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae , < ea09210462316e5235a25eccb11ad0708d86615e (git)
Affected: f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae , < 5c86c895d1cac81a71ead3005084c6265cf6a7a5 (git)
Affected: f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae , < 89ef3a2e1e4682ab82b0455ce113f8c39fb9e50d (git)
Affected: f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae , < a9fa05b7a1246797748d15771052639e0d3cabf1 (git)
Affected: f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae , < 763fe700b7c58ad64fe5202c5638848244dd4127 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.108 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.49 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.13 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.3 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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