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GHSA-GMQ5-QGC7-64GV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-13 18:31 – Updated: 2026-01-13 18:31

Details

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

ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route() under PREEMPT_RT

On PREEMPT_RT kernels, after rt6_get_pcpu_route() returns NULL, the current task can be preempted. Another task running on the same CPU may then execute rt6_make_pcpu_route() and successfully install a pcpu_rt entry. When the first task resumes execution, its cmpxchg() in rt6_make_pcpu_route() will fail because rt6i_pcpu is no longer NULL, triggering the BUG_ON(prev). It's easy to reproduce it by adding mdelay() after rt6_get_pcpu_route().

Using preempt_disable/enable is not appropriate here because ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() may sleep.

Fix this by handling the cmpxchg() failure gracefully on PREEMPT_RT: free our allocation and return the existing pcpu_rt installed by another task. The BUG_ON is replaced by WARN_ON_ONCE for non-PREEMPT_RT kernels where such races should not occur.

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CVE-2025-71080 (GCVE-0-2025-71080)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:34 – Updated: 2026-01-13 15:34

Title

ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route() under PREEMPT_RT

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route() under PREEMPT_RT On PREEMPT_RT kernels, after rt6_get_pcpu_route() returns NULL, the current task can be preempted. Another task running on the same CPU may then execute rt6_make_pcpu_route() and successfully install a pcpu_rt entry. When the first task resumes execution, its cmpxchg() in rt6_make_pcpu_route() will fail because rt6i_pcpu is no longer NULL, triggering the BUG_ON(prev). It's easy to reproduce it by adding mdelay() after rt6_get_pcpu_route(). Using preempt_disable/enable is not appropriate here because ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() may sleep. Fix this by handling the cmpxchg() failure gracefully on PREEMPT_RT: free our allocation and return the existing pcpu_rt installed by another task. The BUG_ON is replaced by WARN_ON_ONCE for non-PREEMPT_RT kernels where such races should not occur.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dc33ad0867325f8d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787515ccb2292f82e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1adaea51c61b52e24…

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Linux

Affected: d2d6422f8bd17c6bb205133e290625a564194496 , < 1dc33ad0867325f8d2c6d7b2a6f542d4f3121f66 (git)
Affected: d2d6422f8bd17c6bb205133e290625a564194496 , < 787515ccb2292f82eb0876993129154629a49651 (git)
Affected: d2d6422f8bd17c6bb205133e290625a564194496 , < 1adaea51c61b52e24e7ab38f7d3eba023b2d050d (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.4 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2025-71080 (GCVE-0-2025-71080)

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