In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: limit printing rate when illegal packet received by tun dev vhostworker will call tun call backs to receive packets. If too many illegal packets arrives, tundoread will keep dumping packet contents. When console is enabled, it will costs much more cpu time to dump packet and soft lockup will be detected. netratelimit mechanism can be used to limit the dumping rate. PID: 33036 TASK: ffff949da6f20000 CPU: 23 COMMAND: "vhost-32980" #0 [fffffe00003fce50] crashnmicallback at ffffffff89249253 #1 [fffffe00003fce58] nmihandle at ffffffff89225fa3 #2 [fffffe00003fceb0] defaultdonmi at ffffffff8922642e #3 [fffffe00003fced0] donmi at ffffffff8922660d #4 [fffffe00003fcef0] endrepeatnmi at ffffffff89c01663 [exception RIP: ioserialin+20] RIP: ffffffff89792594 RSP: ffffa655314979e8 RFLAGS: 00000002 RAX: ffffffff89792500 RBX: ffffffff8af428a0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 00000000000003fd RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: ffffffff8af428a0 RBP: 0000000000002710 R8: 0000000000000004 R9: 000000000000000f R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8acbf64f R12: 0000000000000020 R13: ffffffff8acbf698 R14: 0000000000000058 R15: 0000000000000000 ORIGRAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #5 [ffffa655314979e8] ioserialin at ffffffff89792594 #6 [ffffa655314979e8] waitforxmitr at ffffffff89793470 #7 [ffffa65531497a08] serial8250consoleputchar at ffffffff897934f6 #8 [ffffa65531497a20] uartconsolewrite at ffffffff8978b605 #9 [ffffa65531497a48] serial8250consolewrite at ffffffff89796558 #10 [ffffa65531497ac8] consoleunlock at ffffffff89316124 #11 [ffffa65531497b10] vprintkemit at ffffffff89317c07 #12 [ffffa65531497b68] printk at ffffffff89318306 #13 [ffffa65531497bc8] printhexdump at ffffffff89650765 #14 [ffffa65531497ca8] tundoread at ffffffffc0b06c27 [tun] #15 [ffffa65531497d38] tunrecvmsg at ffffffffc0b06e34 [tun] #16 [ffffa65531497d68] handlerx at ffffffffc0c5d682 [vhostnet] #17 [ffffa65531497ed0] vhostworker at ffffffffc0c644dc [vhost] #18 [ffffa65531497f10] kthread at ffffffff892d2e72 #19 [ffffa65531497f50] retfrom_fork at ffffffff89c0022f