CVE-2026-43371

net: macb: Shuffle the tx ring before enabling tx

published May 8, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: macb: Shuffle the tx ring before enabling tx

Quanyang observed that when using an NFS rootfs on an AMD ZynqMp board,

the rootfs may take an extended time to recover after a suspend.

Upon investigation, it was determined that the issue originates from a

problem in the macb driver.

According to the Zynq UltraScale TRM [1], when transmit is disabled,

the transmit buffer queue pointer resets to point to the address

specified by the transmit buffer queue base address register.

In the current implementation, the code merely resets `queue->tx_head`

and `queue->tx_tail` to '0'. This approach presents several issues:

- Packets already queued in the tx ring are silently lost,

leading to memory leaks since the associated skbs cannot be released.

- Concurrent write access to `queue->tx_head` and `queue->tx_tail` may

occur from `macb_tx_poll()` or `macb_start_xmit()` when these values

are reset to '0'.

- The transmission may become stuck on a packet that has already been sent

out, with its 'TX_USED' bit set, but has not yet been processed. However,

due to the manipulation of 'queue->tx_head' and 'queue->tx_tail',

`macb_tx_poll()` incorrectly assumes there are no packets to handle

because `queue->tx_head == queue->tx_tail`. This issue is only resolved

when a new packet is placed at this position. This is the root cause of

the prolonged recovery time observed for the NFS root filesystem.

To resolve this issue, shuffle the tx ring and tx skb array so that

the first unsent packet is positioned at the start of the tx ring.

Additionally, ensure that updates to `queue->tx_head` and

`queue->tx_tail` are properly protected with the appropriate lock.

[1] https://docs.amd.com/v/u/en-US/ug1085-zynq-ultrascale-trm

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.1th percentile
Published
2026-05-08T14:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 14:21Z
    net: macb: Shuffle the tx ring before enabling tx
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