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CVE-2026-98881NVD

Vulnerability Summary

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

net: bridge: remove stale rcu_barrier() in br_multicast_dev_del()

This rcu_barrier() came from a time call_rcu() calls were used in
net/bridge/br_multicast.c.

Now kfree_rcu() is there, we can remove this problematic rcu_barrier()
which causes extreme RTNL pressure in many syzbot reports.

INFO: task syz-executor:77945 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task kworker/u1024:5:36537.
task:kworker/u1024:5 state:D stack:24616 pid:36537 tgid:36537 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000 last_sleep:612797637337
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[<ffffffff81914eaa>] context_switch+0xf2a/0x1730 kernel/sched/core.c:6483
[<ffffffff81201143>] __schedule+0x1133/0x43a0 kernel/sched/core.c:8411
[<ffffffff8120446b>] __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:8514 [inline]
[<ffffffff8120446b>] schedule+0xab/0x260 kernel/sched/core.c:8529
[<ffffffff8121a093>] schedule_timeout+0xc3/0x2b0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
[<ffffffff81205347>] do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
[<ffffffff81205347>] __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:121 [inline]
[<ffffffff81205347>] wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:132 [inline]
[<ffffffff81205347>] wait_for_completion+0x2c7/0x5d0 kernel/sched/completion.c:153
[<ffffffff81b8f27f>] rcu_barrier+0x49f/0x620 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3888
[<ffffffff860091b3>] br_multicast_dev_del+0x303/0x350 net/bridge/br_multicast.c:4459
[<ffffffff85fb5dbc>] br_dev_uninit+0x1c/0x40 net/bridge/br_device.c:157
[<ffffffff8568058c>] unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1c1c/0x2300 net/core/dev.c:12599
[<ffffffff8562be43>] ops_exit_rtnl_list net/core/net_namespace.c:187 [inline]
[<ffffffff8562be43>] ops_undo_list+0x3d3/0x940 net/core/net_namespace.c:248
Severity Level
UNKNOWN
Published Date
Oct 23, 2026
Last Modified
Oct 26, 2026
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation yet
EPSS Score (30-Day)
0.18%Probability
Root Weakness (CWE)
N/A

Affected & Patched Versions

Affected Versions
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Patched Versions
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