CVE-2026-97982 PUBLISHED

net: ethernet: cortina: Fix budget accounting

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: Fix budget accounting

The gmac_rx() function returns the remaining NAPI budget, but its caller treats the return value as the number of packets received. An idle poll therefore reports a full budget and remains scheduled.

Return the number of received packets instead. Preserve the existing free queue refill accounting by adding that count directly; continuing to subtract it from the budget would invert the refill behavior.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 631c47e2e1154f2741c555b91df1b8cb99294c6a (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 0ef8eaef5806c84db2334111d6f299c246a592bc (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 94e06e12a376710587cfeea481b65e7c49747003 (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to a0de06d0da78a3db53de65dfd7452cc6d111f703 (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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