CVE-2026-31649

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

net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode

The jumbo_frm() chain-mode implementation unconditionally computes

len = nopaged_len - bmax;

where nopagedlen = skbheadlen(skb) (linear bytes only) and bmax is BUFSIZE8KiB or BUFSIZE2KiB. However, the caller stmmacxmit() decides to invoke jumbofrm() based on skb->len (total length including page fragments):

is_jumbo = stmmac_is_jumbo_frm(priv, skb->len, enh_desc);

When a packet has a small linear portion (nopagedlen <= bmax) but a large total length due to page fragments (skb->len > bmax), the subtraction wraps as an unsigned integer, producing a huge len value (~0xFFFFxxxx). This causes the while (len != 0) loop to execute hundreds of thousands of iterations, passing skb->data + bmax * i pointers far beyond the skb buffer to dmamap_single(). On IOMMU-less SoCs (the typical deployment for stmmac), this maps arbitrary kernel memory to the DMA engine, constituting a kernel memory disclosure and potential memory corruption from hardware.

Fix this by introducing a buflen local variable clamped to min(nopagedlen, bmax). Computing len = nopagedlen - buflen is then always safe: it is zero when the linear portion fits within a single descriptor, causing the while (len != 0) loop to be skipped naturally, and the fragment loop in stmmac_xmit() handles page fragments afterward.