CVE-2026-90115 PUBLISHED

xsk: fix NULL pointer dereference in __xsk_rcv()

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

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

xsk: fix NULL pointer dereference in __xsk_rcv()

In the __xsk_rcv() multi-buffer path, xsk_buff_alloc() is called in a loop without checking its return value. xsk_buff_can_alloc() only counts fill queue entries without validating their addresses, so it can succeed while xsk_buff_alloc() rejects all remaining entries and returns NULL.

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:__xsk_rcv+0x426/0xc20 (net/xdp/xsk.c:350) Call Trace: xsk_generic_rcv+0x26d/0x5f0 xdp_do_generic_redirect+0x3c5/0xcf0 do_xdp_generic+0x92f/0xe70 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0xf7e/0x2b30

Fix this with a two-stage transaction. First allocate and stage all buffers required for the packet, recycling all staged buffers with xsk_buff_free() if any allocation fails. Only after this stage succeeds, copy the data, reserve the RX descriptors, and release the buffers in an error-free loop.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to aaebce297efc3e3dccb98a6ff838cfaa47db08db (excl.)
  • affected from 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to 60d7d3559ce66e227e195e9463cdfed8077c8659 (excl.)
  • affected from 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to 214fb79b0379cb0214905632a2537c0c33f594eb (excl.)
  • affected from 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to 8341bd3ff126d85bc8c4ed52eedcaa5b1a65f194 (excl.)
  • affected from 804627751b4281dd95148e7564759145da67855e to e37b2abca80473e106176e41712a369fd2f72117 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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