In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mrfreetable() on failure path
ip[6]mrfreetable() can only be called under RTNL lock.
RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (10367) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5890 at net/core/dev.c:10367 unregisternetdevicemany+0x1246/0x1850 net/core/dev.c:10367 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 5890 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller-11627-g422ee58dc0ef #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:unregisternetdevicemany+0x1246/0x1850 net/core/dev.c:10367 Code: 0f 85 9b ee ff ff e8 69 07 4b fa ba 7f 28 00 00 48 c7 c6 00 90 ae 8a 48 c7 c7 40 90 ae 8a c6 05 6d b1 51 06 01 e8 8c 90 d8 01 <0f> 0b e9 70 ee ff ff e8 3e 07 4b fa 4c 89 e7 e8 86 2a 59 fa e9 ee RSP: 0018:ffffc900046ff6e0 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff888050f51d00 RSI: ffffffff815fa008 RDI: fffff520008dfece RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffffff815f3d6e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffff4 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc900046ff750 R15: ffff88807b7dc000 FS: 00007f4ab736e700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fee0b4f8990 CR3: 000000001e7d2000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> mroutecleantables+0x244/0xb40 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1509 ip6mrfreetable net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:389 [inline] ip6mrrulesinit net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:246 [inline] ip6mrnetinit net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1306 [inline] ip6mrnetinit+0x3f0/0x4e0 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1298 opsinit+0xaf/0x470 net/core/netnamespace.c:140 setupnet+0x54f/0xbb0 net/core/netnamespace.c:331 copynetns+0x318/0x760 net/core/netnamespace.c:475 createnewnamespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110 copynamespaces+0x391/0x450 kernel/nsproxy.c:178 copyprocess+0x2e0c/0x7300 kernel/fork.c:2167 kernelclone+0xe7/0xab0 kernel/fork.c:2555 _dosysclone+0xc8/0x110 kernel/fork.c:2672 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] dosyscall64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f4ab89f9059 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f4ab89f902f. RSP: 002b:00007f4ab736e118 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIGRAX: 0000000000000038 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4ab8b0bf60 RCX: 00007f4ab89f9059 RDX: 0000000020000280 RSI: 0000000020000270 RDI: 0000000040200000 RBP: 00007f4ab8a5308d R08: 0000000020000300 R09: 0000000020000300 R10: 00000000200002c0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007ffc3977cc1f R14: 00007f4ab736e300 R15: 0000000000022000 </TASK>