Bug 2536487 (CVE-2026-90051) - CVE-2026-90051 kernel: tcp: reject non zerocopy devmem tx
Summary: CVE-2026-90051 kernel: tcp: reject non zerocopy devmem tx
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90051
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-17 18:11 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 12:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 18:11:09 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: reject non zerocopy devmem tx

Devmem tcp tx doesn't work without zero-copy, however it's not currently
enforced if NETIF_F_SG isn't present. In this case, tcp_sendmsg_locked()
will try the copy path and try to copy data from an iovec which consists
of offsets into the dma-buf and would normally fail. Moreover,
d9c56501c72fd ("net: tcp: block mixing readable and unreadable frags")
relies on that and assumes that the devmem binding is present IFF we're
using the zero-copy path, which can be used to mix net-iov and pages in
a single skb, and break invariants. Let's reject devmem tx without
zero-copy.

Note, the parameter check the patch is modifying is too loose, we can
create an io_uring request with dmabuf_id and all ZC flags, but which
won't have the binding. We replace it with stricter validation.


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