CVE-2026-31494 PUBLISHED

net: macb: use the current queue number for stats

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 22.04.2026 Updated: 22.04.2026

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

net: macb: use the current queue number for stats

There's a potential mismatch between the memory reserved for statistics and the amount of memory written.

gem_get_sset_count() correctly computes the number of stats based on the active queues, whereas gem_get_ethtool_stats() indiscriminately copies data using the maximum number of queues, and in the case the number of active queues is less than MACB_MAX_QUEUES, this results in a OOB write as observed in the KASAN splat.

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in gem_get_ethtool_stats+0x54/0x78 [macb] Write of size 760 at addr ffff80008080b000 by task ethtool/1027

CPU: [...] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE Hardware name: raspberrypi rpi/rpi, BIOS 2025.10 10/01/2025 Call trace: show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xf8 print_report+0x384/0x5e0 kasan_report+0xa0/0xf0 kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190 __asan_memcpy+0x54/0x98 gem_get_ethtool_stats+0x54/0x78 [macb 926c13f3af83b0c6fe64badb21ec87d5e93fcf65] dev_ethtool+0x1220/0x38c0 dev_ioctl+0x4ac/0xca8 sock_do_ioctl+0x170/0x1d8 sock_ioctl+0x484/0x5d8 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x12c/0x1b8 invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68 el0_svc+0x40/0xf8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8 el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8

The buggy address belongs to a 1-page vmalloc region starting at 0xffff80008080b000 allocated at dev_ethtool+0x11f0/0x38c0 The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff00000a333000 pfn:0xa333 flags: 0x7fffc000000000(node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x1ffff) raw: 007fffc000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: ffff00000a333000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address: ffff80008080b080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff80008080b100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

ffff80008080b180: 00 00 00 00 00 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffff80008080b200: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffff80008080b280: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ==================================================================

Fix it by making sure the copied size only considers the active number of queues.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 9738be665544281aa624842812c2fbfed6f88226 (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 240c5302eed83e34e98db18f6795ee5f40814024 (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 9596759a84e1dbf2670518d85e969208960041f9 (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 95246341945163ad9a250a87ca5bd1c1252777ae (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 9d74d10e4e26672e139a8bcf8bf95957bf2d160f (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 7ff87da099210856cbfe2f2f7f52ddfa57af4f0c (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to e182fe273cdf5a8931592228196ef514ffac392b (excl.)
  • affected from 512286bbd4b7d5b15d26ba8078c8bfd1fc1129bd to 72d96e4e24bbefdcfbc68bdb9341a05d8f5cb6e5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.253 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.203 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.168 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.131 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.80 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.21 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.11 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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