CVE-2026-68449

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

ata: satadwc460ex: fix infinite loop in NCQ tag completion bit-scanning

The hand-rolled bit-scanning loop in the NCQ completion path has an infinite loop bug. When tagmask has only high bits set (e.g. 0x80000000), the inner while loop left-shifts tagmask until it overflows to 0. At that point !(0 & 1) is always true and 0 <<= 1 stays 0, causing an infinite loop in hardirq context with a spinlock held.

Replace the open-coded bit-scanning with __ffs() which correctly finds the least significant set bit and is bounded by the width of the argument.