CVE-2026-64150: netfilter: nft_inner: release local_lock before re-enabling softirqs

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026071931-CVE-2026-64150-056b@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

netfilter: nft_inner: release local_lock before re-enabling softirqs

Quoting sashiko:
 In the error path, local_bh_enable() is called before
 local_unlock_nested_bh().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-64150 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit ba36fada9ab487634f61f92769c95bc148aa8f49 and fixed in 6.18.34 with commit df19b6af171695a1352314597c9a4311d48d5171
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit ba36fada9ab487634f61f92769c95bc148aa8f49 and fixed in 7.0.11 with commit 6fecd39c6401134b58505bc4eb1adc8a0e2fe992
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit ba36fada9ab487634f61f92769c95bc148aa8f49 and fixed in 7.1 with commit a6cb3ff979855f7f0ee9450a947fe8f96c2ba37a

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-64150
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/netfilter/nft_inner.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df19b6af171695a1352314597c9a4311d48d5171
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fecd39c6401134b58505bc4eb1adc8a0e2fe992
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6cb3ff979855f7f0ee9450a947fe8f96c2ba37a
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