CVE-2026-31621
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnge: return after auxiliary_device_uninit() in error path
When auxiliary_device_add() fails, the error block calls auxiliary_device_uninit() but does not return. The uninit drops the last reference and synchronously runs bnge_aux_dev_release(), which sets bd->auxr_dev = NULL and frees the underlying object. The subsequent bd->auxr_dev->net = bd->netdev then dereferences NULL, which is not a good thing to have happen when trying to clean up from an error.
Add the missing return, as the auxiliary bus documentation states is a requirement (seems that LLM tools read documentation better than humans do...)
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Affected products
4- osv-coords2 versions
>= 6.19.0, < 6.19.14+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 6.19.0, < 6.19.14
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.3-1.1
Patches
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