CVE-2026-97981 PUBLISHED

net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work

The RX loop only consumes budget when it successfully delivers a frame. Error paths keep consuming descriptors without reducing the budget, so a stream of bad frames can process the entire receive ring in one poll.

Move the budget accounting to a common end-of-frame path. This counts each completed frame as NAPI work whether it was delivered or dropped, matching the behavior of the vendor driver.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 58140f1cebb776d174dc6ff41c15401654a5b1ea (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to cceb6cd7f0e5ed2944a9ca22443d7b9da82f60ab (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 5754e0c0758805096ecfeaf4c1b146ad51ed246f (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to b856c552f556bc0341c1dbe0bf88e630fd1dc4b7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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