{"schema":"threatline.record/2","record":{"id":"CVE-2026-97956","aliases":[],"summary":"net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change()","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change()\n\nThis is a sibling fix of commit\nb84c5632c7b3 (\"net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register\").\nThere is netdev_lock_ops() in the upper callers, so using netif_open()\ninstead of dev_open().\n\nCall Trace:\n __schedule+0x2bb/0x650\n schedule+0x27/0xb0\n schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30\n __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x550/0xaf0\n __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20\n mutex_lock+0x3b/0x50\n dev_open+0x3b/0xe0\n net_failover_slave_name_change+0x22/0x40\n failover_event+0xd4/0x1e0\n notifier_call_chain+0x62/0xf0\n raw_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x30\n call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x50/0x80\n netif_change_name+0x200/0x330\n do_setlink.isra.0+0xb12/0xdf0\n ? security_capable+0x9a/0x1e0\n ? 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