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CVE-2026-90115

xsk: fix NULL pointer dereference in __xsk_rcv()

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: fix NULL pointer dereference in __xsk_rcv() In the __xsk_rcv() multi-buffer path, xsk_buff_alloc() is called in a loop without checking its return value. xsk_buff_can_alloc() only counts fill queue entries without validating their addresses, so it can succeed while xsk_buff_alloc() rejects all remaining entries and returns NULL. Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:__xsk_rcv+0x426/0xc20 (net/xdp/xsk.c:350) Call Trace: xsk_generic_rcv+0x26d/0x5f0 xdp_do_generic_redirect+0x3c5/0xcf0 do_xdp_generic+0x92f/0xe70 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0xf7e/0x2b30 Fix this with a two-stage transaction. First allocate and stage all buffers required for the packet, recycling all staged buffers with xsk_buff_free() if any allocation fails. Only after this stage succeeds, copy the data, reserve the RX descriptors, and release the buffers in an error-free loop.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to < aaebce297efc3e3dccb98a6ff838cfaa47db08dbaffected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to < 60d7d3559ce66e227e195e9463cdfed8077c8659affected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to < 214fb79b0379cb0214905632a2537c0c33f594ebaffected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to < 8341bd3ff126d85bc8c4ed52eedcaa5b1a65f194affected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to < e37b2abca80473e106176e41712a369fd2f72117affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.6affected
  • 0 to < 6.6unaffected
  • 6.6.157 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.110 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.52 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.6 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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