Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netdevsim: update queue NAPI association on queue reset
In netdevsim, receive queues (struct nsim_rq) embed their own struct napi_struct. When queue reset is performed (e.g. via queue_reset debugfs), nsim_queue_start() swaps in a newly allocated struct nsim_rq, and nsim_queue_mem_free() later deletes and frees the old one.
However, nsim_queue_start() failed to update the queue-to-NAPI mapping via netif_queue_set_napi(). As a result, dev->_rx[idx].napi continued to point to the old NAPI struct. After the old queue was freed, a subsequent queue dump via Netlink (NETDEV_CMD_QUEUE_GET) triggered a KASAN slab-use-after-free read in nla_put_napi_id() when accessing rxq->napi->napi_id.
Fix this by calling netif_queue_set_napi() in nsim_queue_start() to associate the new NAPI with the RX queue, and clear the association with netif_queue_set_napi(..., NULL) in nsim_del_napi() during teardown.
Metrics
No CVSS score has been published yet.
Affected software
Source: the vendor's advisory (CNA). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 5bc8e8dbef27b73bd7b6d1fd5108b4fd4c6d469f, < b8f32b0804b4bf0cba0ee0a093e3fd74f11d7166; >= 5bc8e8dbef27b73bd7b6d1fd5108b4fd4c6d469f, < db038ac4dca0fa626199e9c297eddd8362be0550; >= 5bc8e8dbef27b73bd7b6d1fd5108b4fd4c6d469f, < 07e98a4d5e9c292eae97c9cc5ab0937384e48492 |
| Linux | Linux | 6.14 |
References
Timeline
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Last modified
- Oct 19, 2026
- NVD status
- Received