CVE-2026-43466CWE-662

CVE-2026-43466

High · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/mlx5e: Fix DMA FIFO desync on error CQE SQ recovery

In case of a TX error CQE, a recovery flow is triggered,

mlx5e_reset_txqsq_cc_pc() resets dma_fifo_cc to 0 but not dma_fifo_pc,

desyncing the DMA FIFO producer and consumer.

After recovery, the producer pushes new DMA entries at the old

dma_fifo_pc, while the consumer reads from position 0.

This causes us to unmap stale DMA addresses from before the recovery.

The DMA FIFO is a purely software construct with no HW counterpart.

At the point of reset, all WQEs have been flushed so dma_fifo_cc is

already equal to dma_fifo_pc. There is no need to reset either counter,

similar to how skb_fifo pc/cc are untouched.

Remove the 'dma_fifo_cc = 0' reset.

This fixes the following WARNING:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c:1240 iommu_dma_unmap_page+0x79/0x90

Modules linked in: mlx5_vdpa vringh vdpa bonding mlx5_ib mlx5_vfio_pci ipip mlx5_fwctl tunnel4 mlx5_core ib_ipoib geneve ip6_gre ip_gre gre nf_tables ip6_tunnel rdma_ucm ib_uverbs ib_umad vfio_pci vfio_pci_core act_mirred act_skbedit act_vlan vhost_net vhost tap ip6table_mangle ip6table_nat ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_mangle cls_matchall nfnetlink_cttimeout act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress vhost_iotlb iptable_raw tunnel6 vfio_iommu_type1 vfio openvswitch nsh rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat nf_nat xt_addrtype br_netfilter overlay zram zsmalloc rpcrdma ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core fuse [last unloaded: nf_tables]

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5_for_upstream_min_debug_2024_12_30_21_33 #1

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

RIP: 0010:iommu_dma_unmap_page+0x79/0x90

Code: 2b 4d 3b 21 72 26 4d 3b 61 08 73 20 49 89 d8 44 89 f9 5b 4c 89 f2 4c 89 e6 48 89 ef 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 c7 ae 9e ff <0f> 0b 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00

Call Trace:

<IRQ>

? __warn+0x7d/0x110

? iommu_dma_unmap_page+0x79/0x90

? report_bug+0x16d/0x180

? handle_bug+0x4f/0x90

? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70

? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20

? iommu_dma_unmap_page+0x79/0x90

? iommu_dma_unmap_page+0x2e/0x90

dma_unmap_page_attrs+0x10d/0x1b0

mlx5e_tx_wi_dma_unmap+0xbe/0x120 [mlx5_core]

mlx5e_poll_tx_cq+0x16d/0x690 [mlx5_core]

mlx5e_napi_poll+0x8b/0xac0 [mlx5_core]

__napi_poll+0x24/0x190

net_rx_action+0x32a/0x3b0

? mlx5_eq_comp_int+0x7e/0x270 [mlx5_core]

? notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xa0

handle_softirqs+0xc9/0x270

irq_exit_rcu+0x71/0xd0

common_interrupt+0x7f/0xa0

</IRQ>

<TASK>

asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00606 · 48.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-662 · Improper Synchronization
Published
2026-05-08T19:16Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.17, < 5.10.2535.10.253
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.2035.15.203
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1676.1.167
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1306.6.130
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.786.12.78
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.196.18.19
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.96.19.9
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 14:22Z
    net/mlx5e: Fix DMA FIFO desync on error CQE SQ recovery
    cvelistv5