CVE-2026-98071

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-98071

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

net/rds: clear cp_flags bits individually in rds_conn_path_reset()

rds_conn_path_reset() wipes the whole flag word with a plain

cp->cp_flags = 0 store. Every other accessor of that word uses

atomic bitops, and some of them can run concurrently with the reset:

RDS_LL_SEND_FULL is set from rds_send_xmit() and cleared from the

transport completion paths, neither of which holds anything that

excludes the shutdown worker. A plain store racing an atomic

read-modify-write on the same word is a data race, and whichever

side loses has its update silently discarded.

Clear the two bits the reset is actually responsible for instead.

RDS_IN_XMIT and RDS_RECV_REFILL need no store at all here: they

belong to the caller, rds_conn_shutdown(), which waits for both to be

clear before calling the transport shutdown and this reset.

This also gives every bit in cp_flags a single well-defined writer

discipline, which the following patches rely on when they turn

RDS_IN_XMIT and RDS_RECV_REFILL into bit locks held across the

teardown: a blanket store mid-teardown would destroy lock ownership

that an atomic clear preserves.

Oracle UEK carries the same conversion ("net/rds: Preserve essential

connection state flags"), motivated by its asynchronous shutdown

state machine, whose progress and destroy flags must survive the

reset. UEK's variant also clears RDS_IN_XMIT and RDS_RECV_REFILL

because there the reset runs as the final step of a teardown that

owns both bits, making those clears its unlock. Upstream that

release belongs in rds_conn_shutdown(): once a later patch in this

series turns the two bits into locks held across the teardown, ending

ownership needs release semantics and a wake-up that a plain clear

inside the reset would not provide.

Based on Oracle UEK commit "net/rds: Preserve essential connection

state flags" by Gerd Rausch. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References