CVE-2026-53231
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy
We don't have support for PHY-driver SFP cages with the genphy code.
On top of that, it was found by sashiko that running
sfp_bus_add_upstream() for genphy deadlocks, as for genphy the PHY
probing runs under RTNL, which isn't the case for non-genphy drivers.
This problem was reproduced, and does lead to a deadlock on RTNL.
Before the blamed commit, the phy_sfp_probe() call was made by
individual PHY drivers, so there was no way to get to the SFP probing
path when using genphy.
Let's therefore only run phy_sfp_probe when not using genphy.
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095 < ef8d739eee6f85303cbecebc01eb72f063de74e0, bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095 < 5a0082ec20a05ef2378410323a5089a8f1786f4a |
| Linux | Linux | — | 7.0, 0 < 7.0, 7.0.13 ≤ 7.0.*, 7.1 ≤ * |
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