Bug 2429119 (CVE-2025-71095)

Summary: CVE-2025-71095 kernel: net: stmmac: fix the crash issue for zero copy XDP_TX action
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-13 16:08:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: stmmac: fix the crash issue for zero copy XDP_TX action

There is a crash issue when running zero copy XDP_TX action, the crash
log is shown below.

[  216.122464] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffeffff80000000
[  216.187524] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000144 [#1]  SMP
[  216.301694] Call trace:
[  216.304130]  dcache_clean_poc+0x20/0x38 (P)
[  216.308308]  __dma_sync_single_for_device+0x1bc/0x1e0
[  216.313351]  stmmac_xdp_xmit_xdpf+0x354/0x400
[  216.317701]  __stmmac_xdp_run_prog+0x164/0x368
[  216.322139]  stmmac_napi_poll_rxtx+0xba8/0xf00
[  216.326576]  __napi_poll+0x40/0x218
[  216.408054] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt

For XDP_TX action, the xdp_buff is converted to xdp_frame by
xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(). The memory type of the resulting xdp_frame
depends on the memory type of the xdp_buff. For page pool based xdp_buff
it produces xdp_frame with memory type MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL. For zero copy
XSK pool based xdp_buff it produces xdp_frame with memory type
MEM_TYPE_PAGE_ORDER0. However, stmmac_xdp_xmit_back() does not check the
memory type and always uses the page pool type, this leads to invalid
mappings and causes the crash. Therefore, check the xdp_buff memory type
in stmmac_xdp_xmit_back() to fix this issue.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-01-14 16:32:03 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026011343-CVE-2025-71095-6fad@gregkh/T