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CVE-2026-80980

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: stop killed, freed and out_of_sync sharing a byte The three connection state flags are single-bit bitfields, so they occupy one byte of struct smc_connection and every store to one is a read-modify-write of the other two: u8 killed : 1; u8 freed : 1; u8 out_of_sync : 1; They are not written under a common lock. smc_cdc_msg_validate() sets out_of_sync from the receive tasklet, while smc_conn_kill() sets killed from process context under lock_sock(), and the receive path does not defer to the backlog when the socket is owned -- smc_cdc_msg_recv() takes only bh_lock_sock(). Give each flag its own byte so a store no longer touches its neighbours. All readers test them as booleans and are unchanged. struct smc_connection grows by two bytes.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.8 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-09-11 20:19:04.407000
Last modified
2026-10-30 13:20:14.727000
View original CVE JSON 
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  "published": "2026-09-11T20:19:04.407",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-30T13:20:14.727",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: stop killed, freed and out_of_sync sharing a byte\n\nThe three connection state flags are single-bit bitfields, so they occupy\none byte of struct smc_connection and every store to one is a\nread-modify-write of the other two:\n\n    u8  killed : 1;\n    u8  freed : 1;\n    u8  out_of_sync : 1;\n\nThey are not written under a common lock. smc_cdc_msg_validate() sets\nout_of_sync from the receive tasklet, while smc_conn_kill() sets killed\nfrom process context under lock_sock(), and the receive path does not defer\nto the backlog when the socket is owned -- smc_cdc_msg_recv() takes only\nbh_lock_sock().\n\nGive each flag its own byte so a store no longer touches its neighbours.\nAll readers test them as booleans and are unchanged. struct smc_connection\ngrows by two bytes."
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