CVE-2026-43238 PUBLISHED

net/sched: act_skbedit: fix divide-by-zero in tcf_skbedit_hash()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

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

net/sched: act_skbedit: fix divide-by-zero in tcf_skbedit_hash()

Commit 38a6f0865796 ("net: sched: support hash selecting tx queue") added SKBEDIT_F_TXQ_SKBHASH support. The inclusive range size is computed as:

mapping_mod = queue_mapping_max - queue_mapping + 1;

The range size can be 65536 when the requested range covers all possible u16 queue IDs (e.g. queue_mapping=0 and queue_mapping_max=U16_MAX). That value cannot be represented in a u16 and previously wrapped to 0, so tcf_skbedit_hash() could trigger a divide-by-zero:

queue_mapping += skb_get_hash(skb) % params->mapping_mod;

Compute mapping_mod in a wider type and reject ranges larger than U16_MAX to prevent params->mapping_mod from becoming 0 and avoid the crash.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 38a6f0865796e26fc38fff4858f681d9ae76fa0f to 59809fda4da7730cfe84a948033f47eb45db073d (excl.)
  • affected from 38a6f0865796e26fc38fff4858f681d9ae76fa0f to 9c735a7d98c982a786b0db71eb6566ee00aaa04f (excl.)
  • affected from 38a6f0865796e26fc38fff4858f681d9ae76fa0f to 015cebdfcb97b5347fb7f598ea712a281cb35840 (excl.)
  • affected from 38a6f0865796e26fc38fff4858f681d9ae76fa0f to 4ece5eb4836f8ff03b9004dc2430a7169f282851 (excl.)
  • affected from 38a6f0865796e26fc38fff4858f681d9ae76fa0f to 3c2b95b26860bd6f8e2310d31ea1200d3f8f173e (excl.)
  • affected from 38a6f0865796e26fc38fff4858f681d9ae76fa0f to be054cc66f739a9ba615dba9012a07fab8e7dd6f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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