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CVE-2026-99028

net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop

Published
2026-10-23
Last modified
2026-10-23
CNA
Linux
NVD status
Received

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CVSS v3.1 (listed by NVD)
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Not scored
CVSS v4.0 (listed by NVD)
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Not scored
CVSS (listed by CVE.org)
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Not scored
EPSS exploit probability
0.2%
Percentile 10.5%
as of 2026-10-24
CISA KEV
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Not listed

Description

NVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop In the dmaengine path the driver pre-submits RX buffers and holds in-flight TX buffers whose SKBs are DMA-mapped by the driver and freed only in the completion callbacks. On ndo_stop() dmaengine_terminate_sync() aborts these descriptors without running their callbacks, and the driver then frees only the ring shells, leaking every SKB still owned by the engine and its DMA mapping on each ifdown. With 128 RX buffers pre-posted per channel, the mapping leak can eventually exhaust a limited IOMMU aperture. Clear the slot's skb in the TX and RX callbacks so a non-NULL skb marks a slot that still owns a live, DMA-mapped buffer, and on stop unmap and free every such buffer. axienet_dma_rx_cb() runs from the DMA tasklet and re-arms the RX ring on each completion, so it can race axienet_stop(): a completion may submit a fresh buffer after dmaengine_terminate_sync() has returned, leaving the channel armed with a buffer the teardown then frees while the engine may still write into it (dma_release_channel() does not stop it either). Add a lock that axienet_dma_rx_cb() holds across the @stopping check and the resubmit, and axienet_stop() holds to set @stopping before terminating. Once @stopping is set no callback can arm a new buffer, and any armed just before is aborted by the terminate, so teardown only frees buffers the engine no longer owns.

Affected products and packages

CNA (CVE.org)

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux
affected: 6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1 … < 079396129da5e7cb40ca0920aa1b9525bef6097c
affected: 6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1 … < eececf7c3a679d9c08175ad6bacbc8c31848f5af
affected: 6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1 … < 5e5cf3ad7c099ff86ea9e422cddb25a2e5317b58
affected: 6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1 … < bcf2573a68a808a5b54cadafa72b6672e662c2bf
default: unaffected
LinuxLinux
affected: 6.8
unaffected: 0 … < 6.8
unaffected: 6.12.114 … <= 6.12.*
unaffected: 6.18.58 … <= 6.18.*
unaffected: 7.2.11 … <= 7.2.*
unaffected: 7.3 … <= *
default: affected

Open-source packages (GitHub Advisory / OSV)

net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop

EcosystemPackageAffected versionsFixed in
>= 6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1, < 079396129da5e7cb40ca0920aa1b9525bef6097c; < eececf7c3a679d9c08175ad6bacbc8c31848f5af; < 5e5cf3ad7c099ff86ea9e422cddb25a2e5317b58; < bcf2573a68a808a5b54cadafa72b6672e662c2bf079396129da5e7cb40ca0920aa1b9525bef6097c, eececf7c3a679d9c08175ad6bacbc8c31848f5af, 5e5cf3ad7c099ff86ea9e422cddb25a2e5317b58, bcf2573a68a808a5b54cadafa72b6672e662c2bf
LinuxKernel>= 6.8.0, < 6.12.114; >= 6.13.0, < 6.18.58; >= 6.19.0, < 7.2.116.12.114, 6.18.58, 7.2.11

Linux distribution status

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Debian ↗

ReleasePackageStatusFixed version / notes
bookwormlinuxnot-affected unimportant
forkylinuxresolved not yet assigned7.2.11-1
sidlinuxresolved not yet assigned7.2.11-1
trixielinuxopen not yet assigned

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References (7)