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CVE-2026-43199 (GCVE-0-2026-43199)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:26
VLAI
Title
net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix "scheduling while atomic" in IPsec MAC address query Fix a "scheduling while atomic" bug in mlx5e_ipsec_init_macs() by replacing mlx5_query_mac_address() with ether_addr_copy() to get the local MAC address directly from netdev->dev_addr. The issue occurs because mlx5_query_mac_address() queries the hardware which involves mlx5_cmd_exec() that can sleep, but it is called from the mlx5e_ipsec_handle_event workqueue which runs in atomic context. The MAC address is already available in netdev->dev_addr, so no need to query hardware. This avoids the sleeping call and resolves the bug. Call trace: BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u112:2/69344/0x00000200 __schedule+0x7ab/0xa20 schedule+0x1c/0xb0 schedule_timeout+0x6e/0xf0 __wait_for_common+0x91/0x1b0 cmd_exec+0xa85/0xff0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_cmd_exec+0x1f/0x50 [mlx5_core] mlx5_query_nic_vport_mac_address+0x7b/0xd0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_query_mac_address+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_ipsec_init_macs+0xc1/0x720 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_ipsec_build_accel_xfrm_attrs+0x422/0x670 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_ipsec_handle_event+0x2b9/0x460 [mlx5_core] process_one_work+0x178/0x2e0 worker_thread+0x2ea/0x430
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: cee137a634318bfbda18ee5af45d300153b57fa5 , < e1407fb7c337373dfaaae2445d828b0b9ae26a29 (git)
Affected: cee137a634318bfbda18ee5af45d300153b57fa5 , < 57957bc7f1865778ec9b1618e15515feb6df7eb4 (git)
Affected: cee137a634318bfbda18ee5af45d300153b57fa5 , < 546de94e41e92e1f7dc6213615fb7c794d05db98 (git)
Affected: cee137a634318bfbda18ee5af45d300153b57fa5 , < 859380694f434597407632c29f30fdb5e763e6cc (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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