CVE-2026-43031

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

High · published May 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00609 · 48.5th percentile
Published
2026-05-01T14:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:15Z
    net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets
    cvelistv5