CVE-2026-98620 (GCVE-0-2026-98620)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-18 15:19
Modified
2026-10-19 09:22
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: unregister net_devices in case of probe failure If register_netdev() fails for one of the MTK_MAX_DEVS devices in mtk_probe(), the error path jumps to err_deinit_ppe, skipping mtk_unreg_dev(). The previously registered net_devices are then freed by mtk_free_dev() while still in NETREG_REGISTERED state, hitting the BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED). Route the register_netdev() failure to err_unreg_netdev so the net_devices registered so far are properly unregistered before being freed.
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Linux Linux Version: 8a8a9e89f801ce5d3d1d57ac48db678caf072147
Version: 8a8a9e89f801ce5d3d1d57ac48db678caf072147
Version: 8a8a9e89f801ce5d3d1d57ac48db678caf072147
Version: 8a8a9e89f801ce5d3d1d57ac48db678caf072147
Version: 8a8a9e89f801ce5d3d1d57ac48db678caf072147
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