CVE-2026-43031

net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 1, 2026 at 02:15 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.15 ≤ v < 6.18.226.15 ≤ v < 6.19.126.15 ≤ v < 7.06.19 ≤ v < 6.19.126.157.0 rc17.0 rc27.0 rc37.0 rc47.0 rc57.0 rc6c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4
Vendor states this is fixed in 2a0323a913109b52bfc9f5ea7b92a1b249e07d3e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3c3a6b9020c01fde7b22e8550105de0b59904f61 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d1978d03e86785872871bff9c2623174b10740de (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.22 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.19.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0 (unaffected)

CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
Vector?

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