Bug 2502532 (CVE-2026-64121) - CVE-2026-64121 kernel: net: ifb: report ethtool stats over num_tx_queues
Summary: CVE-2026-64121 kernel: net: ifb: report ethtool stats over num_tx_queues
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64121
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-19 17:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 11:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 17:04:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ifb: report ethtool stats over num_tx_queues

ifb_dev_init() allocates dp->tx_private to dev->num_tx_queues
entries via kzalloc_objs(*txp, dev->num_tx_queues). Both IFB
per-queue RX and TX stats live in those entries: ifb_xmit() updates
txp->rx_stats using the skb queue mapping, ifb_ri_tasklet() updates
txp->tx_stats, and ifb_stats64() aggregates both over
dev->num_tx_queues.

The ethtool stats callbacks instead size and walk the per-queue
stats with dev->real_num_rx_queues and dev->real_num_tx_queues. With
an asymmetric device where the RX queue count exceeds the TX queue
count, for example:

    ip link add name ifb10 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 8 type ifb
    ethtool -S ifb10

ifb_get_ethtool_stats() indexes past the tx_private allocation and
copies adjacent slab data through ETHTOOL_GSTATS.

Use dev->num_tx_queues consistently for the stats strings, the
stats count, and the stats data walks. This reports one RX stats
group and one TX stats group for each backing ifb_q_private entry,
which is the queue set IFB can actually populate.

Reproduced under UML+KASAN at v7.1-rc2:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ifb_fill_stats_data+0x3c/0xae
  Read of size 8 at addr 0000000062dbd228 by task ethtool/36
  ifb_fill_stats_data+0x3c/0xae
  ifb_get_ethtool_stats+0xc0/0x129
  __dev_ethtool+0x1ca5/0x363c
  dev_ethtool+0x123/0x1b3
  dev_ioctl+0x56c/0x744
  sock_do_ioctl+0x15f/0x1b2
  sock_ioctl+0x4d5/0x50a
  sys_ioctl+0xd8b/0xde9

With the patch applied, the same UML+KASAN repro is silent and
ethtool -S ifb10 reports only the stats backed by the single
allocated tx_private entry.


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