CVE-2026-23118

rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 14, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing

Fix the following:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rxrpc_peer_keepalive_worker / rxrpc_send_data_packet

which is reporting an issue with the reads and writes to ->last_tx_at in:

conn->peer->last_tx_at = ktime_get_seconds();

and:

keepalive_at = peer->last_tx_at + RXRPC_KEEPALIVE_TIME;

The lockless accesses to these to values aren't actually a problem as the read only needs an approximate time of last transmission for the purposes of deciding whether or not the transmission of a keepalive packet is warranted yet.

Also, as ->last_tx_at is a 64-bit value, tearing can occur on a 32-bit arch.

Fix both of these by switching to an unsigned int for ->last_tx_at and only storing the LSW of the time64_t. It can then be reconstructed at need provided no more than 68 years has elapsed since the last transmission.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ace45bec6d77bc061c3c3d8ad99e298ea9800c2b to before 49b8ef1abfe7713e15d9128006cb76e413b12b57Affected
  • ace45bec6d77bc061c3c3d8ad99e298ea9800c2b to before a426f29ac3fa3465093567ab763ada46762fb57cAffected
  • ace45bec6d77bc061c3c3d8ad99e298ea9800c2b to before c08cf314191cd0f8699089715efb9eff030f0086Affected
  • ace45bec6d77bc061c3c3d8ad99e298ea9800c2b to before f8cf1368e0a5491b27189a695c36f64e48f3d19dAffected
  • ace45bec6d77bc061c3c3d8ad99e298ea9800c2b to before 5d5fe8bcd331f1e34e0943ec7c18432edfcf0e8bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.17Affected
  • before 4.17Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.130 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.69 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.8 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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