CVE-2026-64210

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

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix unlocked writing to ICOSQ

During napi poll, when the affinity changes and there's still XSK work to be done, we trigger an ICOSQ interrupt on the new CPU. However, this triggering on the ICOSQ is done unprotected.

There are 2 such races:

A) mlx5etriggerirq() is called while mlx5exskallocrxmpwqe() is running from a different CPU due to affinity change. This can happen because IRQ triggering is done after napicompletedone(). At this point the NAPI can be scheduled on a different CPU. Like this:

CPU A (old affinity, NAPI tail) CPU B (new affinity, fresh NAPI) ------------------------------- -------------------------------- napicompletedone() clears SCHED mlx5ecqarm(...) napischeduleprep() sets SCHED mlx5enapipoll() mlx5exskallocrxmpwqe() mlx5eicosqsynclock() // noop memcpy 640 B UMR body advance sq->pc by 10 mlx5etriggerirq(&c->icosq) wqeinfo[pi] = {NOP, 1} mlx5epostnop() advances sq->pc

B) mlx5etriggerirq() is called on the ICOSQ when mlx5etriggernapi_icosq() is running.

The obvious fix would be to lock the ICOSQ. But ICOSQ has an optimized locking scheme that doesn't work for this scenario. Kick the async ICOSQ instead which is always locked.

This issue was noticed in the wild with the following splat:

netdevice: ge-0-0-1: Bad OP in ICOSQ CQE: 0xd WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/enrx.c:826 [...] [...] Call Trace: <IRQ> mlx5enapipoll+0x11d/0x7f0 [mlx5core] __napipoll+0x30/0x200 ? skbdefer_freeflush+0x9c/0xc0 netrxaction+0x2fe/0x3f0 handlesoftirqs+0xd8/0x340 _irqexitrcu+0xbc/0xe0 commoninterrupt+0x85/0xa0 </IRQ> <TASK> asmcommoninterrupt+0x26/0x40 [...] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- mlx5core 0000:08:00.0 ge-0-0-1: Error cqe on cqn 0x548, ci 0x2022, qn 0x8f4, opcode 0xd, syndrome 0x2, vendor syndrome 0x68 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000030: 00 00 00 00 01 00 68 02 01 00 08 f4 de 14 59 d2 WQE DUMP: WQ size 16384 WQ cur size 0, WQE index 0x1e14, len: 64 00000000: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed 80 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed 90 02 00000010: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed a0 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed b0 02 00000020: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed c0 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed d0 02 00000030: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed e0 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed f0 02 mlx5core 0000:08:00.0 ge-0-0-1: Error cqe on cqn 0x548, ci 0x2023, qn 0x8f4, opcode 0xd, syndrome 0x5, vendor syndrome 0xf9 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000030: 00 00 00 00 01 00 f9 05 01 00 08 f4 de 15 cf d2