# CVE-2026-98278: net: remove WARN\_ON\_ONCE() from the dev\_fill\_forward\_path() loop check

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.8
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from ab427db17885814069bae891834f20842f0ac3a4, fixed in d8eb177632dacda28bc6130c2105afbf5b791eb0; from ab427db17885814069bae891834f20842f0ac3a4, fixed in 150dba2c69e93302af24a0c868eebe4871e2e107
- Linux: 6.19
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.8

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from the dev_fill_forward_path() loop check ipip_fill_forward_path() and ip6_tnl_fill_forward_path() look up the route to the tunnel's remote endpoint and set ctx->dev to its device, which is the tunnel itself when that route resolves back to the tunnel. dev_fill_forward_path() then makes no progress and trips WARN_ON_ONCE(last_dev == ctx->dev) as soon as a flowtable tries to offload a flow through the tunnel. That routing loop is a configuration any CAP_NET_ADMIN user can set up, and ip_tunnel_xmit() and ip6_tnl_xmit() already treat it as a tx error, so remove the warning and just fail the walk, as commit 008e7a7c293b ("net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE when accessing forward path array") did for the path stack overflow.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8eb177632dacda28bc6130c2105afbf5b791eb0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/150dba2c69e93302af24a0c868eebe4871e2e107

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