Bug 2492414 (CVE-2026-52983)

Summary: CVE-2026-52983 kernel: net: airoha: fix BQL imbalance in TX path
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's airoha network driver. This vulnerability stems from an inconsistent accounting of inflight packets in the transmit (TX) path, leading to a Byte Queue Limit (BQL) imbalance. This issue could potentially result in network performance degradation or a denial of service (DoS) condition.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 18:10:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: airoha: fix BQL imbalance in TX path

Fix a possible BQL imbalance in airoha_dev_xmit(), where inflight
packets are accounted only for the AIROHA_NUM_TX_RING netdev TX
queues. The queue index is computed as:

    qid = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb) % ARRAY_SIZE(qdma->q_tx)
    txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, qid);

However, airoha_qdma_tx_napi_poll() accounts completions across all
netdev TX queues (num_tx_queues), leading to inconsistent BQL
accounting.

Also reset all netdev TX queues in the ndo_stop callback.