CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97952
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sunvdc: unmap LDC cookies when the descriptor send fails
__send_request() maps the request's pages into the LDC channel's map
table (ldc_map_sg()), fills in the descriptor and marks it
VIO_DESC_READY before ringing the doorbell via __vdc_tx_trigger().
When the trigger fails, the error path only prints a message: the
descriptor stays READY and the cookies are never unmapped. The
mapping is normally released in vdc_end_one() when the peer completes
the descriptor - but a descriptor whose doorbell was never sent will
never complete, and since dr->prod is not advanced on failure, the
reset path (vdc_requeue_inflight(), which walks [cons, prod)) never
visits it either. The map table entries are leaked permanently.
Since commit a11f6ca9aef9 ("sunvdc: Do not spin in an infinite loop
when vio_ldc_send() returns EAGAIN") trigger failures occur in
practice under load, so every resulting I/O error also leaks one
request's worth of entries from the fixed-size (8192 entries per
channel) map table. Because the allocator hands out contiguous
ranges, fragmentation makes large multi-segment requests fail first
as the table drains, until ldc_map_sg() fails permanently and the
disk is dead until reboot.
It also makes any retry-based recovery unusable: requeuing the
request on -EAGAIN remaps the pages on every attempt, overwriting
desc->cookies and orphaning the previous mapping, so the table
drains at the retry rate. This is the memory exhaustion observed
when the requeue approach was first tested in October 2025.
Roll back on failure: unmap the cookies, mark the descriptor FREE
again and clear the request entry. If the trigger failed with
-ENOTCONN, __vdc_tx_trigger() has already reset the port, which
tears down and reallocates both the dring and the LDC channel
including its map table - nothing to roll back, and the stale
descriptor must not be touched.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c6da21fa35e03fc74f09895433ccd6d4a9c3530 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24564576be423f3b5d7e67cd7df848ac66646497 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57835952566f0be9b365a6eb3a70b397a9d5ef47 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9251573e7cf7d797ae4a30b2a236af8242237a61 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab81a5c1014a38dab0fb402609fd866b0bcb4726 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0de6463667e9bb9dc14a83a9c24c1b6b3f7b5f7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb9c5f6747fe98b83c78cb5476a914e91d50e8e8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3322baa3a8ac87730feae952c1146269d78e098 git.kernel.org