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CVE-2026-99054

Linux: tipc: destroy topsrv workqueues before closing connections

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
NoneNot scored
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)No scoreNo FIRST EPSS score in this snapshot yet
Fixed in7f796bb3b440d7f1b14c0e3b520462eb34f553afAlso 0af8780bdfdfc91fb9127bddb9c48fab67dc9d9e, 3acdd44385bc7e2e57605e073691ce69cc5a960dCVE List
Published23 Oct 2026Updated 23 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

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Description

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

tipc: destroy topsrv workqueues before closing connections

tipc_topsrv_stop() closed subscriber connections while the topology server's send and receive workqueues were still running. Socket callbacks and subscription events could then queue more work, and in-flight send/recv work could drop the last connection reference during the conn_idr walk.

That race produced several teardown failures: refcount_t addition on 0 from conn_get() on a connection whose release was blocked on idr_lock, a subsequent use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(), queue_work() on an already destroyed workqueue from the listener data-ready callback, and an RCU stall in tipc_topsrv_exit_net() while the walk spun under idr_lock.

Clear srv->listener under idr_lock so it acts as a shutdown flag, skip queue_work() once it is NULL, destroy the workqueues to flush in-flight work, and only then close the remaining connections. Refuse tipc_conn_lookup() after that flag is cleared, and drop idr_lock when the teardown walk finds no connection, so an in-flight subscription event cannot pin idr_in_use while the walk holds the lock.

v3 supersedes the narrower in-thread diff Tung Quang Nguyen posted on 2026-09-23. It keeps his teardown order and adds the lookup refusal and the empty-idr unlock.

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 12

  • Linuxaffected: c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before 7f796bb3b440d7f1b14c0e3b520462eb34f553afCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before da9c16568bc79140a54c1f5fcf07a0305df47b37CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before 0af8780bdfdfc91fb9127bddb9c48fab67dc9d9eCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before fb717c536af2aafeca520ff11d1e0f25f7ab8fa9CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: c5fa7b3cf3cb22e4ac60485fc2dc187fe012910f before 3acdd44385bc7e2e57605e073691ce69cc5a960dCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 3.11CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 3.11CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.6.160 through 6.6.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.12.113 through 6.12.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.18.57 through 6.18.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.11 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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