CVE-2026-98302 — net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down

Affected: Linux

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

net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down

skfp_ctl_set_mac_address() calls ResetAdapter() unconditionally, without checking netif_running(). ResetAdapter() first calls card_stop(), which sets smc->hw.hw_state to STOPPED, and then mac_drv_clear_tx_queue(), which walks the two transmit queues:

for (i = QUEUE_S; i <= QUEUE_A0; i++) { queue = smc->hw.fp.tx[i] ; ... t = queue->tx_curr_get ;

smc->hw.fp.tx[] is only populated by init_tx(), which is reached from skfp_open() through init_smt() -> init_fddi_driver() -> init_fplus() -> init_mac() -> init_tx(). The private area is allocated and zeroed by alloc_fddidev(), so on an interface that has never been brought up both queue pointers are still NULL. The hw_state test at the top of mac_drv_clear_tx_queue() does not catch this, because card_stop() has just set STOPPED; the function proceeds into the loop and dereferences NULL. ResetAdapter() does call init_smt() itself, but only after the queues have been cleared.

Setting the MAC address on a down interface therefore oopses:

ip link set dev fddi0 address 02:00:00:00:00:01

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp] Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000010 by task ip/302 Call Trace: <TASK> mac_drv_clear_tx_queue+0x68/0x2c0 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837adb44cc37b] ResetAdapter+0x29/0x100 [skfp 6c01d4bab63c36978bd0a7d7e90837ad…

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CVE-2026-98302 — net: fddi: skfp: fix NULL deref when setting the MAC address while down