CVE-2026-23118

rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing

published February 14, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
0.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing

Fix the following:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rxrpc_peer_keepalive_worker / rxrpc_send_data_packet

which is reporting an issue with the reads and writes to ->last_tx_at in:

conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();

and:

keepalive_at = peer->last_tx_at + RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME;

The lockless accesses to these to values aren't actually a problem as the

read only needs an approximate time of last transmission for the purposes

of deciding whether or not the transmission of a keepalive packet is

warranted yet.

Also, as ->last_tx_at is a 64-bit value, tearing can occur on a 32-bit

arch.

Fix both of these by switching to an unsigned int for ->last_tx_at and only

storing the LSW of the time64_t. It can then be reconstructed at need

provided no more than 68 years has elapsed since the last transmission.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00098 · 0.7th percentile
Published
2026-02-14T15:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 FEB 15:09Z
    rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing
    cvelistv5