Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026
CVE-2026-98620
CVE-2026-98620
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: unregister net_devices in case of probe failure
If register_netdev() fails for one of the MTK_MAX_DEVS devices in mtk_probe(), the error path jumps to err_deinit_ppe, skipping mtk_unreg_dev(). The previously registered net_devices are then freed by mtk_free_dev() while still in NETREG_REGISTERED state, hitting the BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED).
Route the register_netdev() failure to err_unreg_netdev so the net_devices registered so far are properly unregistered before being freed.
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fdb944d4df02223c67d5e65c4c134ecb57a5668nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/245bea0c7ab278150c70366bdeb69b901327133cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/310d1ac61a4d5a2ca8356a3a48d263acf54503cenvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7254b702e556158e34b4d7c168b5d8e7da5978afnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab3bde3b3e56331b4f53a1f6cf4e5e9d1c14c1a0nvd
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