CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47558
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: stmmac: Disable Tx queues when reconfiguring the interface
The Tx queues were not disabled in situations where the driver needed to
stop the interface to apply a new configuration. This could result in a
kernel panic when doing any of the 3 following actions:
* reconfiguring the number of queues (ethtool -L)
* reconfiguring the size of the ring buffers (ethtool -G)
* installing/removing an XDP program (ip l set dev ethX xdp)
Prevent the panic by making sure netif_tx_disable is called when stopping
an interface.
Without this patch, the following kernel panic can be observed when doing
any of the actions above:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff80001238d040
[....]
Call trace:
dwmac4_set_addr+0x8/0x10
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xe4/0x1ac
sch_direct_xmit+0xe8/0x39c
__dev_queue_xmit+0x3ec/0xaf0
dev_queue_xmit+0x14/0x20
[...]
[ end trace 0000000000000002 ]---
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10 < 5.15.6)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a92f0eebb8dc008b9e8c51c6f7b8c93b27a29a43 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b270bfe697367776eca2e6759a71d700fb8d82a2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a92f0eebb8dc008b9e8c51c6f7b8c93b27a29a43 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b270bfe697367776eca2e6759a71d700fb8d82a2 Patch