CVE-2026-74624

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

netfilter: nf_conntrack: defer invalid log until after unlock

TCP and SCTP conntrack paths can emit invalid-packet logs while ct->lock

is still held.

When invalid logging is routed to nfnetlink_log and conntrack export is

enabled, the log path can re-enter conntrack netlink glue and dump the

same conntrack again. Protocol attribute dumping may take ct->lock, so

logging while holding that lock can deadlock.

Defer the TCP invalid logs by storing only the minimal log context while

ct->lock is held and emitting the log after unlocking. Also make the TCP

timeout-lowering invalid path return whether a log is needed, then emit

that log after unlocking.

Do the same for the SCTP invalid state-transition log that can be reached

while ct->lock is held.

Add a lockdep assertion to nf_ct_l4proto_log_invalid() so future callers

that log invalid conntracks while holding ct->lock are caught outside TCP

and SCTP as well.