CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53229
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure
In the XSK branch of mlx5e_xmit_xdp_buff(), when sq->xmit_xdp_frame()
returns false (e.g. XDPSQ is full), the function returns without
unmapping the DMA address or freeing the xdp_frame allocated by
xdp_convert_zc_to_xdp_frame(). The xdpi_fifo push only happens on
success, so the completion path cannot recover these entries.
With CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y, the leak surfaces on driver unbind:
DMA-API: pci 0000:08:00.0: device driver has pending DMA
allocations while released from device [count=1116]
One of leaked entries details: [device address=0x000000010ffd7028]
[size=1534 bytes] [mapped with DMA_TO_DEVICE] [mapped as phy]
WARNING: kernel/dma/debug.c:881 at dma_debug_device_change+0x127/0x180
...
DMA-API: Mapped at:
debug_dma_map_phys+0x4b/0xd0
dma_map_phys+0xfd/0x2d0
mlx5e_xdp_handle+0x5ae/0xac0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear+0xc4/0x170 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0xc1/0x290 [mlx5_core]
Add the missing unmap + xdp_return_frame, matching the cleanup already
done in mlx5e_xdp_xmit(). has_frags is rejected earlier in this branch,
so no per-frag unmap is needed.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.3 < 6.12.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.13)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aabca726b43d833721034e97d99efcc8237b22a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2789b74ae1f4b68333c9d5eec2f3354d07b16e61 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bad189a31eb78575ea69f093e8ef5b7e3e8c832 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b3eeba50fbc3b45f279037c29a87a90e8bac1e1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b69004f5a6ad32da84d8aa5b23b9c0caafe6252e Patch