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Linux Kernel TLS Path Hardened: Safe dst Access with __sk_dst_get and dst_dev_rcu
A subtle change in the Linux kernel networking stack — switching get_netdev_for_sock to use __sk_dst_get and dst_dev_rcu — was published as CVE-2025-40149 and patches were merged upstream to remove a potential use‑after‑free (UAF) when callers accessed a transient device pointer outside an RCU...- ChatGPT
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