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fbnic: Move phylink resume out of service_task and into open/close

Published Sep 16, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.14 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.14 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.14 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.14 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.14 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.11 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.14 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.14 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-realtime-6.14 Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.14 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

fbnic: Move phylink resume out of service_task and into open/close

The fbnic driver was presenting with the following locking assert coming
out of a PM resume:
[ 42.208116][ T164] RTNL: assertion failed at drivers/net/phy/phylink.c (2611)
[ 42.208492][ T164] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 164 at drivers/net/phy/phylink.c:2611 phylink_resume+0x190/0x1e0
[ 42.208872][ T164] Modules linked in:
[ 42.209140][ T164] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 164 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-virtme #134 PREEMPT(full)
[ 42.209496][ T164] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014
[ 42.209861][ T164] RIP: 0010:phylink_resume+0x190/0x1e0
[ 42.210057][ T164] Code: 83 e5 01 0f 85 b0 fe ff ff c6 05 1c cd 3e 02 01 90 ba 33 0a 00 00 48 c7 c6 20 3a 1d a5 48 c7 c7 e0 3e 1d a5 e8 21 b8 90 fe 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 e9 86 fe ff ff e8 42 ea 1f ff e9 e2 fe ff ff 48 89 ef
[ 42.210708][ T164] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000affbd8 EFLAGS: 00010296
[ 42.210983][ T164] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880078d8400 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 42.211235][ T164] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 1ffffffff4f10938 RDI: 0000000000000001
[ 42.211466][ T164] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffffa2ae79ea R09: fffffbfff4b3eb84
[ 42.211707][ T164] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888007ad8000
[ 42.211997][ T164] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff888006a18800 R15: ffffffffa34c59e0
[ 42.212234][ T164] FS: 00007f0dc8e39740(0000) GS:ffff88808f51f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 42.212505][ T164] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 42.212704][ T164] CR2: 00007f0dc8e9fe10 CR3: 000000000b56d003 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[ 42.213227][ T164] PKRU: 55555554
[ 42.213366][ T164] Call Trace:
[ 42.213483][ T164] <TASK>
[ 42.213565][ T164] __fbnic_pm_attach.isra.0+0x8e/0xa0
[ 42.213725][ T164] pci_reset_function+0x116/0x1d0
[ 42.213895][ T164] reset_store+0xa0/0x100
[ 42.214025][ T164] ? pci_dev_reset_attr_is_visible+0x50/0x50
[ 42.214221][ T164] ? sysfs_file_kobj+0xc1/0x1e0
[ 42.214374][ T164] ? sysfs_kf_write+0x65/0x160
[ 42.214526][ T164] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2f8/0x4c0
[ 42.214677][ T164] ? kernfs_vma_page_mkwrite+0x1f0/0x1f0
[ 42.214836][ T164] new_sync_write+0x308/0x6f0
[ 42.214987][ T164] ? __lock_acquire+0x34c/0x740
[ 42.215135][ T164] ? new_sync_read+0x6f0/0x6f0
[ 42.215288][ T164] ? lock_acquire.part.0+0xbc/0x260
[ 42.215440][ T164] ? ksys_write+0xff/0x200
[ 42.215590][ T164] ? perf_trace_sched_switch+0x6d0/0x6d0
[ 42.215742][ T164] vfs_write+0x65e/0xbb0
[ 42.215876][ T164] ksys_write+0xff/0x200
[ 42.215994][ T164] ? __ia32_sys_read+0xc0/0xc0
[ 42.216141][ T164] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x269/0x9f0
[ 42.216292][ T164] ? rcu_is_watching+0x15/0xd0
[ 42.216442][ T164] do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x360
[ 42.216591][ T164] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
[ 42.216784][ T164] RIP: 0033:0x7f0dc8ea9986

A bit of digging showed that we were invoking the phylink_resume as a part
of the fbnic_up path when we were enabling the service task while not
holding the RTNL lock. We should be enabling this sooner as a part of the
ndo_open path and then just letting the service task come online later.
This will help to enforce the correct locking and brings the phylink
interface online at the same time as the network interface, instead of at a
later time.

I tested this on QEMU to verify this was working by putting the system to
sleep using "echo mem > /sys/power/state" to put the system to sleep in the
guest and then using the command "system_wakeup" in the QEMU monitor.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.11 6.12.45

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.16.5-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.48-1 DSA-6008-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +19 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20015-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.8.1.160000.2.5 SUSE-SU-2026:20015-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20021-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20015-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.8.1.160000.2.5 SUSE-SU-2026:20015-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.8.1.160000.2.5 SUSE-SU-2026:20012-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20562-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20012-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.8.1.160000.2.5 openSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +10 6.12.0-160000.8.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1

Advisories 7

References