CVE-2026-43031 PUBLISHED

net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 01.05.2026 Updated: 01.05.2026

In 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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 to 2a0323a913109b52bfc9f5ea7b92a1b249e07d3e (excl.)
  • affected from c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 to 3c3a6b9020c01fde7b22e8550105de0b59904f61 (excl.)
  • affected from c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 to d1978d03e86785872871bff9c2623174b10740de (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.22 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.12 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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