CVE-2026-90115

xsk: fix NULL pointer dereference in __xsk_rcv()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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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.

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to before aaebce297efc3e3dccb98a6ff838cfaa47db08dbAffected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to before 60d7d3559ce66e227e195e9463cdfed8077c8659Affected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to before 214fb79b0379cb0214905632a2537c0c33f594ebAffected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to before 8341bd3ff126d85bc8c4ed52eedcaa5b1a65f194Affected
  • 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to before e37b2abca80473e106176e41712a369fd2f72117Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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