CVE-2026-90145

hinic3: Fix skb linearization mismatch and drop skb when skb_checksum_help() failed

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
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:

hinic3: Fix skb linearization mismatch and drop skb when skb_checksum_help() failed

Previously, hinic3_send_one_skb() cached the skb fragment count before calling hinic3_tx_offload(). If hinic3_tx_csum() falls back to skb_checksum_help() for unsupported tunnel packets, the skb may be linearized. Continuing to build the TX descriptor with the stale fragment count leads to a descriptor mismatch, which can trigger out-of-bounds DMA reads or IOMMU faults.

Furthermore, the old code ignored the return value of skb_checksum_help(), transmitting corrupted packets with incomplete checksums upon failure.

Fix this by: 1. Moving the hinic3_tx_offload() call before calculating 'num_sge' to ensure the correct fragment count is used if the SKB is linearized. 2. Propagating skb_checksum_help() errors and returning HINIC3_TX_OFFLOAD_INVALID to properly drop the skb.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 17fcb3dc12bbee8ec3e32ca1f60898f252e06b2d to before e794cdc5c369c1b06359e2fe03a8d9270f56beadAffected
  • 17fcb3dc12bbee8ec3e32ca1f60898f252e06b2d to before 96c3959770386b2913c62005f0d0c3151e0c01c3Affected
  • 17fcb3dc12bbee8ec3e32ca1f60898f252e06b2d to before d0c2bed6927cbfa2cb51f240b4812bf6916bce0eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not 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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