net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del() This rcu_barrier() came from a time call_rcu() calls were used in net/bridge/br_multicast.c. Now kfree_rcu() is there, we can remove this problematic rcu_barrier() which causes extreme RTNL pressure in many syzbot reports. INFO: task syz-executor:77945 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task kworker/u1024:5:36537. task:kworker/u1024:5 state:D stack:24616 pid:36537 tgid:36537 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000 last_sleep:612797637337 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: [] context_switch+0xf2a/0x1730 kernel/sched/core.c:6483 [] __schedule+0x1133/0x43a0 kernel/sched/core.c:8411 [] __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:8514 [inline] [] schedule+0xab/0x260 kernel/sched/core.c:8529 [] schedule_timeout+0xc3/0x2b0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75 [] do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline] [] __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:121 [inline] [] wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:132 [inline] [] wait_for_completion+0x2c7/0x5d0 kernel/sched/completion.c:153 [] rcu_barrier+0x49f/0x620 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3888 [] br_multicast_dev_del+0x303/0x350 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:4459 [] br_dev_uninit+0x1c/0x40 net/bridge/br_device.c:157 [] unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1c1c/0x2300 net/core/dev.c:12599 [] ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline] [] ops_undo_list+0x3d3/0x940 net/core/net_namespace.c:248
CVE-2026-98881
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-98881
Linux
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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Linux
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product
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Structured affected-version data
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