net: atlantic: free stranded TX buffers on ring deinit
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: atlantic: free stranded TX buffers on ring deinit aq_vec_deinit() drains the TX rings with a single aq_ring_tx_clean() call, which frees at most AQ_CFG_TX_CLEAN_BUDGET (256) descriptors and stops at hw_head, which no longer moves once aq_vec_stop() has stopped the hardware and NAPI. Completed descriptors beyond the budget and everything still posted in [hw_head, sw_tail) keep their skb or xdp_frame when the interface goes down: aq_vec_ring_free() then frees the buffer ring and the references are lost for good. Today this is a silent memory leak on every interface down under TX/XDP_TX load. With the conversion of the RX path to page_pool posted for net-next it becomes much more visible: XDP_TX frames carry fragment references on the RX ring's page_pool, so a single stranded frame keeps the pool's inflight count above zero forever. page_pool_destroy() then never completes, the pool is leaked together with its pages, and "page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown" is warned every 60 seconds from that point on, on every ifdown, XDP detach or ring resize under XDP_TX load. Bring back aq_ring_tx_deinit() as it was before the removal and use it for teardown again, with one extension: TX rings can hold xdp_frames nowadays, so release those too. They are returned with xdp_return_frame() since this runs in process context.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.266, 5.15.217, 6.1.183, 6.6.152, 6.12.104, 6.18.45, 7.1.9, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74623
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-98pj-4qrw-8mcj
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a14ceebd13bf857bfca052bc5a6bd49e737912be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f1c20873f70b4b22ef86dc38dad1fda8e169bcd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/307d80193b4a4a75b8dc4e0d3162be3755abbed7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a3e1481f4ee6c581bccc6bfc6c970aac5be7b0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3447641d361dcc5511841d986ad4d849b2900d9b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b13202d401e1a20fec89b0cda733dcbaf279f79d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd633280de7fdfd60dc4fcf63d04e2ad95b43269
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/452636ea5410a96e02ebaaf80b21e3620b98e0dd
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74623 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74623 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-98pj-4qrw-8mcj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74623 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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