Bug 2541184 (CVE-2026-97981) - CVE-2026-97981 kernel: net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work
Summary: CVE-2026-97981 kernel: net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-97981
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-09-25 10:55 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-30 06:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 10:55:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work

The RX loop only consumes budget when it successfully delivers a frame.
Error paths keep consuming descriptors without reducing the budget, so a
stream of bad frames can process the entire receive ring in one poll.

Move the budget accounting to a common end-of-frame path. This counts
each completed frame as NAPI work whether it was delivered or dropped,
matching the behavior of the vendor driver.


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