qede: Fix NULL pointer dereference in TPA fragment processing (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89511
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.71 % · percentile 53 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qede: Fix NULL pointer dereference in TPA fragment processing Under memory pressure, the qede driver encounters NULL pointer dereferences when processing TPA continuation fragments. Commit 8a8633978b84 ("qede: Add build_skb() support.") accidentally dropped the assignment of tpa_info->buffer.data in qede_tpa_start(). When memory pressure causes an SKB allocation failure in qede_tpa_start(), the driver sets tpa_start_fail = true and attempts to recycle the physical page later in qede_tpa_end() via qede_reuse_page(). However, because buffer.data was left uninitialized (NULL), qede_reuse_page() pushes a "ghost" BD (valid DMA mapping but NULL data pointer) back into the active Rx ring. The next time the hardware uses this ring slot, it passes a NULL page to qede_fill_frag_skb(), causing a kernel panic. Example crash from production system: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x8 RIP: qede_fill_frag_skb+0x96/0x430 [qede] Call Trace: qede_rx_int+0xb06/0x1de0 qede_poll+0x2f4/0x6c0 __napi_poll+0x2d/0x130 Fix the root cause by restoring the tpa_info->buffer.data assignment in qede_tpa_start(), ensuring valid pages are correctly tracked and recycled. Additionally, update the stale comment for struct qede_agg_info::buffer to reflect its current usage.

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 8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e < e2214e2793154b745436e46c6a9a7985d9b3781d ; affected 8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e < dd8bc0a9d87d2b048711edd17ba7286432edd285 ; affected 8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e < fa7c9bd2c4a8de167e2fb32968ca4d91dd774375 ; affected 8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e < a5e1fdc126ab337d601d1a00cc4b47910679d005 ; affected 8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e < 7f911e208b3ca2c76d9f2bbba1f54b9403568c10 ; affected 8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e < 2a952fb1b20d83e83ca852773e6188511f7d2191
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.18 ; unaffected 0 < 4.18 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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