Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Low 2026-08-26T00:00:00 kernel: eth: bnxt: avoid deadlock when canceling IRQ affinity notifier 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CWE-833

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: bnxt: avoid deadlock when canceling IRQ affinity notifier Unregistering IRQ affinity notifiers waits for the callback synchronously. bnxt takes the netdev instance lock in the notifier (to restart the queue) and cancels the work under the same lock. This may obviously deadlock. Move the restart to the async service task. The queue restart isn't super time sensitive. Store the new TPH tag, schedule the task. Safely canceling the service task is already ironed out. In bnxt_request_irq() the order of registering notifier, affinity and initial TPH programming has to be inverted. I think it was racy previously since user may trigger an update as soon as notifier is installed. There's a small known gap - if pcie_tph_get_cpu_st() fails at init and the target tag is 0 we may miss programming the entry. This does not seem worth fixing, the code has skip-on-failure all over the place, anyway.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's `bnxt` Ethernet driver. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a system deadlock. The deadlock occurs when the driver attempts to unregister an IRQ affinity notifier while holding a lock that is also required by the notifier's callback, leading to system unresponsiveness.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Fix deferred kernel-rt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74745 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74745 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026082658-CVE-2026-74745-fe41@gregkh/T