CVE-2026-97573

bnxt_en: Handle buffer allocation failure in bnxt_rx_ring_reset()

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 24, 2026

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Description

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

bnxt_en: Handle buffer allocation failure in bnxt_rx_ring_reset()

bnxt_rx_ring_reset() frees the ring buffers and then reallocates them, ignoring the result.

bnxt_alloc_one_rx_ring() can fail in bnxt_alloc_one_tpa_info_data(), which returns -ENOMEM on the first failed allocation and leaves the remaining rxr->rx_tpa[] entries zeroed.

The error isn't propagated up, so the loop in bnxt_rx_ring_reset continues and at the end the code re-enables TPA with partially unallocated rx_tpa array.

This means that when the agg_id from hardware is mapped to a SW index in rxr->rx_tpa[], an uninitialized slot can be chosen which would hand a zero DMA address to the device.

Fix this by falling back to a global reset, which is what the existing code already does when other functions fail, but unlike the other failure cases this particular failure has to return because TPA can't be re-enabled since the allocation failed.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before 52fc97cbc3ba118aad84e7c001bf02ebe8496f70Affected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before 40b4a7bb6b0b872b45f017dbf211268de098b75cAffected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before af9a2bdaba0b4ceb0fc5e5122ef3fc6b7e5a366aAffected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before cfec9e7f15a56cb0104bac13d01e5d11e1ba84fbAffected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before 1a3670b6a6b5679fe56c5890157b344f091e64f8Affected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before 4a17c73c83798c2fa9c7920ad5a98803adce3e01Affected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before 8b2fd5c0aeda935294159206af9d6179282d425aAffected
  • 8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14 to before 961e2a17c5e3559b3f8654d2daabdd25a42e770aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.10.271 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.222 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.7 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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