Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 14, 2026

sfc: fix deadlock in RSS config read

CVE-2026-23165

Description

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

Since cited commit, core locks the net_device's rss_lock when handling ethtool -x command, so driver's implementation should not lock it again. Remove the latter.

Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 6.17

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/590c8179ffb01c17644181408821b55b8704c50cmitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/944c614b0a7afa5b87612c3fb557b95a50ad654cmitre

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