---
id: CVE-2026-90232
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  amt: Don't support cross-netns setup.

  When a lower device is unregistered, amt_device_event() tries
  to unregister its upper AMT device, but it has two problems.

    1
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  amt: Don't support cross-netns setup.

  When a lower device is unregistered, amt_device_event() tries
  to unregister its upper AMT device, but it has two problems.

    1. …
severity: none
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= b9022b53adad88fd6cf2b9718c9e498504f3e1dd <
    569eb11f0990849ba48706a2bfa743273707e254
  - >-
    Linux >= b9022b53adad88fd6cf2b9718c9e498504f3e1dd <
    e1dc0af719a2566ae7ccb82c0a11f70aa54908e9
  - >-
    Linux >= b9022b53adad88fd6cf2b9718c9e498504f3e1dd <
    e99ecc3046ea5f5c6b5e1f8b4ef854c6c6998e06
  - Linux 5.16
published: '2026-09-17'
updated: '2026-09-17'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-17T17:17:19.043'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90232'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/569eb11f0990849ba48706a2bfa743273707e254'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1dc0af719a2566ae7ccb82c0a11f70aa54908e9'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e99ecc3046ea5f5c6b5e1f8b4ef854c6c6998e06'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-09-17T16:21:47.851Z'
epss: 0.00198
epssPercentile: 0.09829
---

## Overview

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

amt: Don't support cross-netns setup.

When a lower device is unregistered, amt_device_event() tries
to unregister its upper AMT device, but it has two problems.

  1. amt_lookup_upper_dev() looks up an upper device in the
      lower device's netns only

  2. amt_device_event() unregisters a single upper device only

If AMT device is created on a lower device in another netns,
removing the lower device triggers the splat below and gets
stuck until all upper devices are removed. [0]

The cross-netns setup seems unintentional considering 1. and
the following points:

  * amt_link_setup() sets dev->netns_immutable to true
  * skb_scrub_packet() is not called in the fast path
  * iproute2 binary fails to find cross-netns lower device via
    link-netns:
      # ip -n ns1 link add amt0 link-netns ns2 type amt dev veth1
      Cannot find device "veth1"

Instead of supporting it properly and preparing for per-netns
netdev unreg, let's forbid cross-netns setup.

Note that the problem 2. needs a separate fix.

[0]:
WARNING: net/core/dev.c:12518 at unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1cce/0x2250, CPU#48: ip/2031
Modules linked in:
CPU: 48 UID: 0 PID: 2031 Comm: ip Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5+ #27 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify (net/core/dev.c:12518)
Code: 89 ef e8 d5 52 ae fe e9 d0 f4 ff ff 48 8d 3d f9 3b 9c 02 48 c7 c6 c0 0b 63 84 ba ab 1f 00 00 67 48 0f b9 3a e9 65 ff ff ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 81 48 8d 3d f6 3b 9c 02 48 c7 c6 c0 0b 63 84 ba e2 1f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004abf160 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: ffff888104d38260 RBX: ffff88800b0911b8 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff85b9f880
RBP: ffffc90004abf2d0 R08: ffffffff85b9f887 R09: 1ffffffff0b73f10
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff0b73f11 R12: ffff88800b091d08
R13: ffff88800b091178 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff88800b091000
FS:  00007f555b86c600(0000) GS:ffff8881942a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000562107d489c0 CR3: 0000000109a40002 CR4: 0000000000372ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 rtnl_dellink (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3632 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3674)
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:7112)
 netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556)
 netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319)
 netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900)
 ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:775)
 __sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2738)
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63)
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
...
unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth0 to become free. Usage count = 7
ref_tracker: netdev@ffff88800d7496d8 has 3/3 users at
     __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert (./include/linux/netdevice.h:4525 ./include/linux/netdevice.h:4554 net/core/dev.c:8791)
     __netdev_upper_dev_link (net/core/dev.c:8879 net/core/dev.c:8963)
     netdev_upper_dev_link (net/core/dev.c:9009)
     amt_newlink (drivers/net/amt.c:3321)

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.