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CVE-2026-53323

Status: AnalyzedMedium (5.5)—

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

net: dsa: remove redundant netdev_lock_ops() from conduit ethtool ops

DSA replaces the conduit (master) device's ethtool_ops with its own wrappers that aggregate stats from both the conduit and DSA switch ports. Taking the lock again inside the DSA wrappers causes a deadlock.

Stumbled upon this when booting qemu with fbnic and CONFIG_NET_DSA_LOOP=y (which looks like some kind of testing device that auto-populates the ports of eth0). `ethtool -i` is enough to deadlock. This means we have basically zero coverage for DSA stuff with real ops locked devs.

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Remove the redundant netdev_lock_ops()/netdev_unlock_ops() calls from the DSA conduit ethtool wrappers.

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Linux — Linux Kernel

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