Bug 2559592 (CVE-2026-98911) - CVE-2026-98911 kernel: dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx()
Summary: CVE-2026-98911 kernel: dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98911
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: 2026-10-23 12:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-26 19:20 UTC (History)
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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.


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