CVE-2026-99028

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99028
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-99028.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-99028
Downstream
Published
2026-10-23T12:21:20Z
Modified
2026-10-25T02:47:32Z
Summary
net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop
Details

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

net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop

In the dmaengine path the driver pre-submits RX buffers and holds in-flight TX buffers whose SKBs are DMA-mapped by the driver and freed only in the completion callbacks. On ndo_stop() dmaengine_terminate_sync() aborts these descriptors without running their callbacks, and the driver then frees only the ring shells, leaking every SKB still owned by the engine and its DMA mapping on each ifdown. With 128 RX buffers pre-posted per channel, the mapping leak can eventually exhaust a limited IOMMU aperture.

Clear the slot's skb in the TX and RX callbacks so a non-NULL skb marks a slot that still owns a live, DMA-mapped buffer, and on stop unmap and free every such buffer.

axienet_dma_rx_cb() runs from the DMA tasklet and re-arms the RX ring on each completion, so it can race axienet_stop(): a completion may submit a fresh buffer after dmaengine_terminate_sync() has returned, leaving the channel armed with a buffer the teardown then frees while the engine may still write into it (dma_release_channel() does not stop it either). Add a lock that axienet_dma_rx_cb() holds across the @stopping check and the resubmit, and axienet_stop() holds to set @stopping before terminating. Once @stopping is set no callback can arm a new buffer, and any armed just before is aborted by the terminate, so teardown only frees buffers the engine no longer owns.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/99xxx/CVE-2026-99028.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1
Fixed
079396129da5e7cb40ca0920aa1b9525bef6097c
Fixed
eececf7c3a679d9c08175ad6bacbc8c31848f5af
Fixed
5e5cf3ad7c099ff86ea9e422cddb25a2e5317b58
Fixed
bcf2573a68a808a5b54cadafa72b6672e662c2bf

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-99028.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.8.0
Fixed
6.12.114
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.58
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.11

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-99028.json"