CVE-2026-68449

ata: sata_dwc_460ex: fix infinite loop in NCQ tag completion bit-scanning

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Published: August 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC
Updated: August 19, 2026 at 05:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.36 ≤ v < 5.10.2652.6.36 ≤ v < 5.15.2162.6.36 ≤ v < 6.12.1012.6.36 ≤ v < 6.18.422.6.36 ≤ v < 6.6.1482.6.36 ≤ v < 7.1.62.6.36 ≤ v < 7.22.6.3662936009f35a6659cc3ebe0d90c754182d60da73
Vendor states this is fixed in 1842d45f461a78988254631893329bdf4596e954 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 29b916d3556bd12a95be7c56ca391b8cd572f8be (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4c6e64cae2b2dab32ad9099faa339f6a72c0ce16 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8c5de0d8ab6824cfdadcbbe1be4c6c9d9f4c1f80 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c2130f6553f4a5cbdc259de069600117a995f197 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d72e8089dc332ac48293512ef0de77cbe0e04d25 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ea9fa4dabe476f85fe73df30a6ab61a23c22fda4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.36 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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