CVE-2026-98311

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

wifi: virt wifi: don't transfer operstate before register

virt wifi newlink() calls netif stacked transfer operstate() before register netdevice(). If the lower device is dormant, that queues the new netdev on lweventlist while it is still uninitialized. If registration fails after that, for example because of an invalid name such as "bad/name", free netdev() immediately frees the object. A later linkwatch fire event() then use-after-frees the list entry.

Move the transfer to after netdev upper dev link(), as macvlan and ipvlan already do.