From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-43479: net: usb: lan78xx: fix WARN in __netif_napi_del_locked on disconnect
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 17:08:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026051348-CVE-2026-43479-7738@gregkh> (raw)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: lan78xx: fix WARN in __netif_napi_del_locked on disconnect
Remove redundant netif_napi_del() call from disconnect path.
A WARN may be triggered in __netif_napi_del_locked() during USB device
disconnect:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at net/core/dev.c:7417 __netif_napi_del_locked+0x2b4/0x350
This happens because netif_napi_del() is called in the disconnect path while
NAPI is still enabled. However, it is not necessary to call netif_napi_del()
explicitly, since unregister_netdev() will handle NAPI teardown automatically
and safely. Removing the redundant call avoids triggering the warning.
Full trace:
lan78xx 1-1:1.0 enu1: Failed to read register index 0x000000c4. ret = -ENODEV
lan78xx 1-1:1.0 enu1: Failed to set MAC down with error -ENODEV
lan78xx 1-1:1.0 enu1: Link is Down
lan78xx 1-1:1.0 enu1: Failed to read register index 0x00000120. ret = -ENODEV
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at net/core/dev.c:7417 __netif_napi_del_locked+0x2b4/0x350
Modules linked in: flexcan can_dev fuse
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2-00624-ge926949dab03 #9 PREEMPT
Hardware name: SKOV IMX8MP CPU revC - bd500 (DT)
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __netif_napi_del_locked+0x2b4/0x350
lr : __netif_napi_del_locked+0x7c/0x350
sp : ffffffc085b673c0
x29: ffffffc085b673c0 x28: ffffff800b7f2000 x27: ffffff800b7f20d8
x26: ffffff80110bcf58 x25: ffffff80110bd978 x24: 1ffffff0022179eb
x23: ffffff80110bc000 x22: ffffff800b7f5000 x21: ffffff80110bc000
x20: ffffff80110bcf38 x19: ffffff80110bcf28 x18: dfffffc000000000
x17: ffffffc081578940 x16: ffffffc08284cee0 x15: 0000000000000028
x14: 0000000000000006 x13: 0000000000040000 x12: ffffffb0022179e8
x11: 1ffffff0022179e7 x10: ffffffb0022179e7 x9 : dfffffc000000000
x8 : 0000004ffdde8619 x7 : ffffff80110bcf3f x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffffff80110bcf38 x4 : ffffff80110bcf38 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 1ffffff0022179e7 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
__netif_napi_del_locked+0x2b4/0x350 (P)
lan78xx_disconnect+0xf4/0x360
usb_unbind_interface+0x158/0x718
device_remove+0x100/0x150
device_release_driver_internal+0x308/0x478
device_release_driver+0x1c/0x30
bus_remove_device+0x1a8/0x368
device_del+0x2e0/0x7b0
usb_disable_device+0x244/0x540
usb_disconnect+0x220/0x758
hub_event+0x105c/0x35e0
process_one_work+0x760/0x17b0
worker_thread+0x768/0xce8
kthread+0x3bc/0x690
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
irq event stamp: 211604
hardirqs last enabled at (211603): [<ffffffc0828cc9ec>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x84/0x98
hardirqs last disabled at (211604): [<ffffffc0828a9a84>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80
softirqs last enabled at (211296): [<ffffffc080095f10>] handle_softirqs+0x820/0xbc8
softirqs last disabled at (210993): [<ffffffc080010288>] __do_softirq+0x18/0x20
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
lan78xx 1-1:1.0 enu1: failed to kill vid 0081/0
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-43479 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 6.17 with commit e110bc82589752909e283ba5cbc160e0ab56c085 and fixed in 6.18.19 with commit 20ce2bd1c1848414c5d3520d301ed3f5751ed634
Issue introduced in 6.17 with commit e110bc82589752909e283ba5cbc160e0ab56c085 and fixed in 6.19.9 with commit 395a8b903738511f536c97c427e15ef038e1a11c
Issue introduced in 6.17 with commit e110bc82589752909e283ba5cbc160e0ab56c085 and fixed in 7.0 with commit 312c816c6bc30342bc30dca0d6db617ab4d3ae4e
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-43479
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20ce2bd1c1848414c5d3520d301ed3f5751ed634
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/395a8b903738511f536c97c427e15ef038e1a11c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/312c816c6bc30342bc30dca0d6db617ab4d3ae4e
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