GHSA-XPR9-PCWR-H574
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-01 15:30 – Updated: 2026-05-03 09:33In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets
When a TX packet spans multiple buffer descriptors (scatter-gather), axienet_free_tx_chain sums the per-BD actual length from descriptor status into a caller-provided accumulator. That sum is reset on each NAPI poll. If the BDs for a single packet complete across different polls, the earlier bytes are lost and never credited to BQL. This causes BQL to think bytes are permanently in-flight, eventually stalling the TX queue.
The SKB pointer is stored only on the last BD of a packet. When that BD completes, use skb->len for the byte count instead of summing per-BD status lengths. This matches netdev_sent_queue(), which debits skb->len, and naturally survives across polls because no partial packet contributes to the accumulator.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-43031"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-05-01T15:16:47Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets\n\nWhen a TX packet spans multiple buffer descriptors (scatter-gather),\naxienet_free_tx_chain sums the per-BD actual length from descriptor\nstatus into a caller-provided accumulator. That sum is reset on each\nNAPI poll. If the BDs for a single packet complete across different\npolls, the earlier bytes are lost and never credited to BQL. This\ncauses BQL to think bytes are permanently in-flight, eventually\nstalling the TX queue.\n\nThe SKB pointer is stored only on the last BD of a packet. When that\nBD completes, use skb-\u003elen for the byte count instead of summing\nper-BD status lengths. This matches netdev_sent_queue(), which debits\nskb-\u003elen, and naturally survives across polls because no partial\npacket contributes to the accumulator.",
"id": "GHSA-xpr9-pcwr-h574",
"modified": "2026-05-03T09:33:10Z",
"published": "2026-05-01T15:30:37Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43031"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a0323a913109b52bfc9f5ea7b92a1b249e07d3e"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c3a6b9020c01fde7b22e8550105de0b59904f61"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1978d03e86785872871bff9c2623174b10740de"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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