CVE-2024-36900
kernel: net: hns3: fix kernel crash when devlink reload during initialization
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 30, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hns3: fix kernel crash when devlink reload during initialization
The devlink reload process will access the hardware resources, but the register operation is done before the hardware is initialized. So, processing the devlink reload during initialization may lead to kernel crash.
This patch fixes this by registering the devlink after hardware initialization.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable