CVE-2026-90051 PUBLISHED

tcp: reject non zerocopy devmem tx

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

tcp: reject non zerocopy devmem tx

Devmem tcp tx doesn't work without zero-copy, however it's not currently enforced if NETIF_F_SG isn't present. In this case, tcp_sendmsg_locked() will try the copy path and try to copy data from an iovec which consists of offsets into the dma-buf and would normally fail. Moreover, d9c56501c72fd ("net: tcp: block mixing readable and unreadable frags") relies on that and assumes that the devmem binding is present IFF we're using the zero-copy path, which can be used to mix net-iov and pages in a single skb, and break invariants. Let's reject devmem tx without zero-copy.

Note, the parameter check the patch is modifying is too loose, we can create an io_uring request with dmabuf_id and all ZC flags, but which won't have the binding. We replace it with stricter validation.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bd61848900bff597764238f3a8ec67c815cd316e to 2151b2bcf6fcec52665f606eed20da068447f0b7 (excl.)
  • affected from bd61848900bff597764238f3a8ec67c815cd316e to b04326c7927af7048fd4e730f5770cca350d0a60 (excl.)
  • affected from bd61848900bff597764238f3a8ec67c815cd316e to 125755776bc6d4dd53eaf551c87e3d460625d638 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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