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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

net: fix possible store tearing in neigh_periodic_work()

CVE-2023-52522

Description

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

net: fix possible store tearing in neigh_periodic_work()

While looking at a related syzbot report involving neigh_periodic_work(), I found that I forgot to add an annotation when deleting an RCU protected item from a list.

Readers use rcu_deference(*np), we need to use either rcu_assign_pointer() or WRITE_ONCE() on writer side to prevent store tearing.

I use rcu_assign_pointer() to have lockdep support, this was the choice made in neigh_flush_dev().

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