CVE-2026-98795

Published: October 21, 2026Last modified: October 23, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sparx5: skip ptp deinit if init was skipped sparx5_ptp_init() returns early on the base lan969x variants because they do not have the SPX5_FEATURE_PTP flag. It also returns early when no "ptp" interrupt is described. Unbinding the driver then causes a NULL pointer dereference when cleaning up uninitialized tx_skbs queues: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 Call trace: skb_queue_purge_reason+0x68/0x120 (P) sparx5_ptp_deinit+0x64/0xc0 mchp_sparx5_remove+0x38/0x70 platform_remove+0x20/0x30 device_remove+0x4c/0x80 Before per-port tx_skbs were added, a NULL dereference would have happened when calling ptp_clock_unregister() on the never-registered PTP clocks. Fix by returning early in sparx5_ptp_deinit() if PTP is not used.

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d2c49915bc3aea4521cda5e4d42f24f63b94585
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2879b65bfa548e10d59c5fba91d17f8a00cd7029
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35c706d6eb1963735814c5f5bb2674a96eacf3cc