Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rhcos (opens in a new tab)
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- published13 Aug 2026
- disclosed12 Aug 2026
Introduced: 12 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-68449 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rhcos package and not the rhcos package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: sata_dwc_460ex: 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 tag_mask has only high bits set (e.g. 0x80000000), the inner while loop left-shifts tag_mask 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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-68449
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1842d45f461a78988254631893329bdf4596e954
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29b916d3556bd12a95be7c56ca391b8cd572f8be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c6e64cae2b2dab32ad9099faa339f6a72c0ce16
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c5de0d8ab6824cfdadcbbe1be4c6c9d9f4c1f80
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2130f6553f4a5cbdc259de069600117a995f197
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d72e8089dc332ac48293512ef0de77cbe0e04d25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea9fa4dabe476f85fe73df30a6ab61a23c22fda4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90e8cf489b593814b9398aa187ddbb790e33ec6f