Medium · published January 31, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: j1939: make j1939_session_activate() fail if device is no longer registered
syzbot is still reporting
unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2
even after commit 93a27b5891b8 ("can: j1939: add missing calls in
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler") was added. A debug printk() patch
found that j1939_session_activate() can succeed even after
j1939_cancel_active_session() from j1939_netdev_notify(NETDEV_UNREGISTER)
has completed.
Since j1939_cancel_active_session() is processed with the session list lock
held, checking ndev->reg_state in j1939_session_activate() with the session
list lock held can reliably close the race window.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.4.1, < 5.10.248 | 5.10.248 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.198 | 5.15.198 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.161 | 6.1.161 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.121 | 6.6.121 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.66 | 6.12.66 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.6 | 6.18.6 |
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