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CVE-2026-43012

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix switchdev mode rollback in case of failure If for some internal reason switchdev mode fails, we rollback to legacy mode, before this patch, rollback will unregister the uplink netdev and leave it unregistered causing the below kernel bug. To fix this, we need to avoid netdev unregister by setting the proper rollback flag 'MLX5_PRIV_FLAGS_SWITCH_LEGACY' to indicate legacy mode. devlink (431) used greatest stack depth: 11048 bytes left mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), \ necvfs(0), active vports(0) mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Supported tc chains and prios offload mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: Loading uplink representor for vport 65535 mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_cmd_out_err:816:(pid 456): \ QUERY_HCA_CAP(0x100) op_mod(0x0) failed, \ status bad parameter(0x3), syndrome (0x3a3846), err(-22) mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0 enp0s3np0 (unregistered): Unloading uplink \ representor for vport 65535 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12070! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 456 Comm: devlink Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3+ \ #9 PREEMPT(voluntary) RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x123/0xae0 ... Call Trace: [ 90.923094] unregister_netdevice_queue+0xad/0xf0 [ 90.923323] unregister_netdev+0x1c/0x40 [ 90.923522] mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0x61/0xc6 [ 90.923736] esw_offloads_enable+0x8e6/0x920 [ 90.923947] mlx5_eswitch_enable_locked+0x349/0x430 [ 90.924182] ? is_mp_supported+0x57/0xb0 [ 90.924376] mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x167/0x350 [ 90.924628] devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x6f/0xf0 [ 90.924862] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe8/0x140 [ 90.925088] genl_rcv_msg+0x18b/0x290 [ 90.925269] ? __pfx_devlink_nl_pre_doit+0x10/0x10 [ 90.925506] ? __pfx_devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x10/0x10 [ 90.925766] ? __pfx_devlink_nl_post_doit+0x10/0x10 [ 90.926001] ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 [ 90.926206] netlink_rcv_skb+0x52/0x100 [ 90.926393] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 [ 90.926557] netlink_unicast+0x27d/0x3d0 [ 90.926749] netlink_sendmsg+0x1f7/0x430 [ 90.926942] __sys_sendto+0x213/0x220 [ 90.927127] ? __sys_recvmsg+0x6a/0xd0 [ 90.927312] __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 [ 90.927504] do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1c0 [ 90.927687] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 90.927929] RIP: 0033:0x7f7d0363e047

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-05-01 15:16:45.117000
Last modified
2026-11-06 16:18:16.153000
View original CVE JSON
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