CVE-2026-43031 (GCVE-0-2026-43031)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 14:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:25
VLAI
Title
net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets When a TX packet spans multiple buffer descriptors (scatter-gather), axienet_free_tx_chain sums the per-BD actual length from descriptor status into a caller-provided accumulator. That sum is reset on each NAPI poll. If the BDs for a single packet complete across different polls, the earlier bytes are lost and never credited to BQL. This causes BQL to think bytes are permanently in-flight, eventually stalling the TX queue. The SKB pointer is stored only on the last BD of a packet. When that BD completes, use skb->len for the byte count instead of summing per-BD status lengths. This matches netdev_sent_queue(), which debits skb->len, and naturally survives across polls because no partial packet contributes to the accumulator.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 , < 2a0323a913109b52bfc9f5ea7b92a1b249e07d3e (git)
Affected: c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 , < 3c3a6b9020c01fde7b22e8550105de0b59904f61 (git)
Affected: c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 , < d1978d03e86785872871bff9c2623174b10740de (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.22 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.12 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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