veth: fix queue index used to wake the peer txq in veth_poll (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74742
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 40 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: veth: fix queue index used to wake the peer txq in veth_poll veth_poll() derives the index of the peer TX queue to wake from rq->xdp_rxq.queue_index. That field is only initialized by xdp_rxq_info_reg() in veth_enable_xdp_range(), which runs only when an XDP program is attached. On the plain GRO/NAPI path (veth_napi_enable_range()) xdp_rxq_info_reg() is never called, so queue_index stays 0 for every queue, as priv->rq is zero-allocated. So in a multi-queue setup with GRO enabled and no XDP program attached, every NAPI instance looks at the peer's TX queue 0. If veth_xmit() stops peer TX queue 1 because the ptr_ring is full (NETDEV_TX_BUSY), nothing ever wakes it again: the poller draining queue 1 wakes queue 0 instead. veth implements no ndo_tx_timeout, so the netdev watchdog does not kick in either, and the queue stays stopped indefinitely. Derive the index from the position of the rq within priv->rq instead, which is correct regardless of whether XDP was ever enabled. Scripts to reproduce the stall are available at https://github.com/netoptimizer/veth-backpressure-performance-testing

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 9fe31b3f314534e238aa6d0b6fb492134cbcf8be < b662a1fb4f3a5ea19bac24eea8315b1d05be51e7 ; affected dc82a33297fc2c58cb0b2b008d728668d45c0f6a < 73f8dd22b1e533a99ecc3f9b5de6c6daccaecace ; affected dc82a33297fc2c58cb0b2b008d728668d45c0f6a < 90bb11fb29d3c55a2c46dc7c386d096b286e7fcf ; affected dc82a33297fc2c58cb0b2b008d728668d45c0f6a < 60db47f02bfa2aa688938aa199117ec4f8e31d23 ; affected 6.12.61 < 6.12.105
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 6.16 ; unaffected 6.12.105 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.46 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.10 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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