CVE-2026-53229 PUBLISHED

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure

In the XSK branch of mlx5e_xmit_xdp_buff(), when sq->xmit_xdp_frame() returns false (e.g. XDPSQ is full), the function returns without unmapping the DMA address or freeing the xdp_frame allocated by xdp_convert_zc_to_xdp_frame(). The xdpi_fifo push only happens on success, so the completion path cannot recover these entries.

With CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y, the leak surfaces on driver unbind:

DMA-API: pci 0000:08:00.0: device driver has pending DMA allocations while released from device [count=1116] One of leaked entries details: [device address=0x000000010ffd7028] [size=1534 bytes] [mapped with DMA_TO_DEVICE] [mapped as phy] WARNING: kernel/dma/debug.c:881 at dma_debug_device_change+0x127/0x180 ... DMA-API: Mapped at: debug_dma_map_phys+0x4b/0xd0 dma_map_phys+0xfd/0x2d0 mlx5e_xdp_handle+0x5ae/0xac0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear+0xc4/0x170 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0xc1/0x290 [mlx5_core]

Add the missing unmap + xdp_return_frame, matching the cleanup already done in mlx5e_xdp_xmit(). has_frags is rejected earlier in this branch, so no per-frag unmap is needed.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to 7b3eeba50fbc3b45f279037c29a87a90e8bac1e1 (excl.)
  • affected from 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to 2789b74ae1f4b68333c9d5eec2f3354d07b16e61 (excl.)
  • affected from 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to 0aabca726b43d833721034e97d99efcc8237b22a (excl.)
  • affected from 84a0a2310d6de247335574649726cb000c7c0074 to b69004f5a6ad32da84d8aa5b23b9c0caafe6252e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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