CVE 7.5 HIGH

net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets_CVE-2026-43031

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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

net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets

When a TX packet spans multiple buffer descriptors (scatter-gather),
axienet_free_tx_chain sums the per-BD actual length from descriptor
status into a caller-provided accumulator. That sum is reset on each
NAPI poll. If the BDs for a single packet complete across different
polls, the earlier bytes are lost and never credited to BQL. This
causes BQL to think bytes are permanently in-flight, eventually
stalling the TX queue.

The SKB pointer is stored only on the last BD of a packet. When that
BD completes, use skb->len for the byte count instead of summing
per-BD status lengths. This matches netdev_sent_queue(), which debits
skb->len, and naturally survives across polls because no partial
packet contributes to the accumulator.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-43031
Source Linux
Published May 1, 2026 at 14:15
Modified May 3, 2026 at 05:46

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4
Affected Versions Linux Linux c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4
Linux Linux c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4
Linux Linux c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4
Linux Linux 6.15

References

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