CVE-2026-31579

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wg_netns_pre_exit() manually acquires rtnl_lock() inside the pernet .pre_exit callback. This causes a hung task when another thread holds rtnl_mutex - the cleanup_net workqueue (or the setup_net failure rollback path) blocks indefinitely in wg_netns_pre_exit() waiting to acquire the lock. Convert to .exit_rtnl, introduced in commit 7a60d91c690b ("net: Add ->exit_rtnl() hook to struct pernet_operations."), where the framework already holds RTNL and batches all callbacks under a single rtnl_lock()/rtnl_unlock() pair, eliminating the contention window. The rcu_assign_pointer(wg->creating_net, NULL) is safe to move from .pre_exit to .exit_rtnl (which runs after synchronize_rcu()) because all RCU readers of creating_net either use maybe_get_net() - which returns NULL for a dying namespace with zero refcount - or access net->user_ns which remains valid throughout the entire ops_undo_list sequence. [ Jason: added __net_exit and __read_mostly annotations that were missing. ]

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c52ef00e391144334f10995985c2f256d4be982 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c52ef00e391144334f10995985c2f256d4be982Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60a25ef8dacb3566b1a8c4de00572a498e2a3bf9Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a9e69155b2091b8297afaf1533b8d68a3096841Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1d0f6cbb962af29586e3e65a4bced1a5e39221fPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/707607db2193591b68c0e70f814133472c185b1e