Bug 2559592 (CVE-2026-98911)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98911 kernel: dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's dpaa2-switch network driver. When an error occurs during frame reception, the driver improperly invokes a cleanup routine intended for transmit buffers that expects a valid socket buffer structure. An attacker capable of sending traffic that triggers an error during packet processing could cause an invalid pointer dereference, resulting in a kernel crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 12:21:29 UTC

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

dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx()

In case of an error in dpaa2_switch_rx(), the dpaa2_switch_free_fd()
function is called in order to free the FD. This is incorrect since the
dpaa2_switch_free_fd() is intended to be used on Tx frame descriptors,
meaning that it expects in the software annotation area of the FD data
to find a valid skb pointer on which to call dev_kfree_skb().

Fix this by extracting the dma_unmap_page() from
dpaa2_switch_build_linear_skb() directly into the dpaa2_switch_rx()
function. This allows us to directly use free_pages() in case of an
error before an SKB was created and kfree_skb() afterwards.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-10-26 19:14:41 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98911.mbox