CVE-2026-53229

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

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

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure

In the XSK branch of mlx5e_xmit_xdp_buff(), when sq->xmit_xdp_frame() returns false (e.g. XDPSQ is full), the function returns without unmapping the DMA address or freeing the xdp_frame allocated by xdp_convert_zc_to_xdp_frame(). The xdpi_fifo push only happens on success, so the completion path cannot recover these entries.

With CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y, the leak surfaces on driver unbind:

DMA-API: pci 0000:08:00.0: device driver has pending DMA allocations while released from device [count=1116] One of leaked entries details: [device address=0x000000010ffd7028] [size=1534 bytes] [mapped with DMA_TO_DEVICE] [mapped as phy] WARNING: kernel/dma/debug.c:881 at dma_debug_device_change+0x127/0x180 ... DMA-API: Mapped at: debug_dma_map_phys+0x4b/0xd0 dma_map_phys+0xfd/0x2d0 mlx5e_xdp_handle+0x5ae/0xac0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear+0xc4/0x170 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0xc1/0x290 [mlx5_core]

Add the missing unmap + xdp_return_frame, matching the cleanup already done in mlx5e_xdp_xmit(). has_frags is rejected earlier in this branch, so no per-frag unmap is needed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to before bf0247d34d79d2740b3f1d6cc44dbd38ab2b169eAffected
  • 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to before 3bad189a31eb78575ea69f093e8ef5b7e3e8c832Affected
  • 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to before 7b3eeba50fbc3b45f279037c29a87a90e8bac1e1Affected
  • 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to before 2789b74ae1f4b68333c9d5eec2f3354d07b16e61Affected
  • 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to before 0aabca726b43d833721034e97d99efcc8237b22aAffected
  • 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to before b69004f5a6ad32da84d8aa5b23b9c0caafe6252eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.3Affected
  • before 5.3Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.94 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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