Bug 2492758 (CVE-2026-53215)

Summary: CVE-2026-53215 kernel: net: mvpp2: refill RX buffers before XDP or skb use
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mvpp2 network driver. This vulnerability occurs due to incorrect handling of receive (RX) buffers, where a buffer is returned to the hardware Buffer Manager (BM) pool after it has been passed to the eXpress Data Path (XDP) or attached to a socket buffer (skb). This allows hardware Direct Memory Access (DMA) operations into memory that is no longer controlled by the RX ring, potentially leading to memory corruption.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:04:12 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mvpp2: refill RX buffers before XDP or skb use

The RX error path returns the current descriptor buffer to the hardware
BM pool. That is only valid while the driver still owns the buffer.

mvpp2_rx_refill() can fail after the current buffer has been handed to
XDP or attached to an skb. In those cases mvpp2_run_xdp() may have
recycled, redirected, or queued the page for XDP_TX, and an skb free also
retires the data buffer. Returning such a buffer to BM lets hardware DMA
into memory that is no longer owned by the RX ring.

Refill the BM pool before handing the current buffer to XDP or to the
skb. If the allocation fails there, drop the packet and return the
still-owned current buffer to BM, preserving the pool depth. Once the
refill succeeds, later local drops retire/free the current buffer instead
of returning it to BM.
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-06-25 23:29:14 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062504-CVE-2026-53215-351e@gregkh/T