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

net/mlx5: Fix switchdev mode rollback in case of failure

If for some internal reason switchdev mode fails, we rollback to legacy
mode, before this patch, rollback will unregister the uplink netdev and
leave it unregistered causing the below kernel bug.

To fix this, we need to avoid netdev unregister by setting the proper
rollback flag 'MLX5_PRIV_FLAGS_SWITCH_LEGACY' to indicate legacy mode.

devlink (431) used greatest stack depth: 11048 bytes left
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), \
	necvfs(0), active vports(0)
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Supported tc chains and prios offload
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: Loading uplink representor for vport 65535
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: mlx5_cmd_out_err:816:(pid 456): \
	QUERY_HCA_CAP(0x100) op_mod(0x0) failed, \
	status bad parameter(0x3), syndrome (0x3a3846), err(-22)
mlx5_core 0000:00:03.0 enp0s3np0 (unregistered): Unloading uplink \
	representor for vport 65535
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12070!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 456 Comm: devlink Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3+ \
	#9 PREEMPT(voluntary)
RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x123/0xae0
...
Call Trace:
[   90.923094]  unregister_netdevice_queue+0xad/0xf0
[   90.923323]  unregister_netdev+0x1c/0x40
[   90.923522]  mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0x61/0xc6
[   90.923736]  esw_offloads_enable+0x8e6/0x920
[   90.923947]  mlx5_eswitch_enable_locked+0x349/0x430
[   90.924182]  ? is_mp_supported+0x57/0xb0
[   90.924376]  mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x167/0x350
[   90.924628]  devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x6f/0xf0
[   90.924862]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe8/0x140
[   90.925088]  genl_rcv_msg+0x18b/0x290
[   90.925269]  ? __pfx_devlink_nl_pre_doit+0x10/0x10
[   90.925506]  ? __pfx_devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x10/0x10
[   90.925766]  ? __pfx_devlink_nl_post_doit+0x10/0x10
[   90.926001]  ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
[   90.926206]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x52/0x100
[   90.926393]  genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[   90.926557]  netlink_unicast+0x27d/0x3d0
[   90.926749]  netlink_sendmsg+0x1f7/0x430
[   90.926942]  __sys_sendto+0x213/0x220
[   90.927127]  ? __sys_recvmsg+0x6a/0xd0
[   90.927312]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
[   90.927504]  do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1c0
[   90.927687]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[   90.927929] RIP: 0033:0x7f7d0363e047

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ebb13f3e8be0b61f72425b34cce60c8b6ad1891

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/403186400a1a6166efe7031edc549c15fee4723f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4363698838b7ec6e8d85b179495889aa7e522f91

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e27153b2bd6e6699b544ac4dfa35d167bed5e642