CVE-2021-47558

net: stmmac: Disable Tx queues when reconfiguring the interface

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 24, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 24, 2024

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Description

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

net: stmmac: Disable Tx queues when reconfiguring the interface

The Tx queues were not disabled in situations where the driver needed to stop the interface to apply a new configuration. This could result in a kernel panic when doing any of the 3 following actions: * reconfiguring the number of queues (ethtool -L) * reconfiguring the size of the ring buffers (ethtool -G) * installing/removing an XDP program (ip l set dev ethX xdp)

Prevent the panic by making sure netif_tx_disable is called when stopping an interface.

Without this patch, the following kernel panic can be observed when doing any of the actions above:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff80001238d040 [....] Call trace: dwmac4_set_addr+0x8/0x10 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xe4/0x1ac sch_direct_xmit+0xe8/0x39c __dev_queue_xmit+0x3ec/0xaf0 dev_queue_xmit+0x14/0x20 [...] [ end trace 0000000000000002 ]---

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0366f7e06a6bee7eace3946a6b67fb88b828bc5c to before a92f0eebb8dc008b9e8c51c6f7b8c93b27a29a43Affected
  • 0366f7e06a6bee7eace3946a6b67fb88b828bc5c to before b270bfe697367776eca2e6759a71d700fb8d82a2Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.15.6 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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