CVE-2026-52975 bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator

What is CVE-2026-52975?

CVE-2026-52975 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Jun 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator

syzbot found a data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info / bond_3ad_state_machine_handler [1] which hints at lack of proper RCU implementation.

Add __rcu qualifier to port->aggregator, and add proper RCU API.

[1]

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info / bond_3ad_state_machine_handler

write to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 36 on cpu 0: ad_port_selection_logic drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:1659 [inline] bond_3ad_state_machine_handler+0x9d5/0x2d60 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2569 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x4f0/0x9c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3385 worker_thread+0x58a/0x780 kernel/workqueue.c:3466 kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 22063 on cpu 1: __bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2858 [inline] bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info+0x8c/0x230 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2881 bond_fill_info+0xe0f/0x10f0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c:853 rtnl_link_info_fill net/core/rtnetlink.c:906 [inline] rtnl_link_fill+0x1d7/0x4e0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:927 rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0xf8e/0x1380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2168 rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x11c/0x1b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4453 rtmsg_ifinfo_event net/core/rtnetlink.c:4486 [inline] rtmsg_ifinfo+0x6d/0x110 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4495 __dev_notify_flags+0x76/0x390 net/core/dev.c:9790 netif_change_flags+0xac/0xd0 net/core/dev.c:9823 do_setlink+0x905/0x2950 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3180 rtnl_group_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3813 [inline] __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3981 [inline] rtnl_newlink+0xf55/0x1400 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4109 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x64b/0x720 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6995 netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7022 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x5a8/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344 netlink_sendmsg+0x5c8/0x6f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0x563/0x5b0 net/socket.c:2698 ___sys_sendmsg+0x195/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2752 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline] __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xd4/0x160 net/socket.c:2787 x64_sys_call+0x194c/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0xffff88813cf5c400

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22063 Comm: syz.0.31122 Tainted: G W syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-52975?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-52975?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2026-52975 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-52975 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-52975, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-52975, GHSA-24f9-69r4-vr33, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-52975, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-52975, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-52975 and 3 more.