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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-39502"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:20:35.635Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:44:33.877Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39502"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39502.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39502"
title: "ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nionic: fix use after netif_napi_del()\n\nWhen queues are started, netif_napi_add() and napi_enable() are called.\nIf there are 4 queues and only 3 queues are used for the current\nconfiguration, only 3 queues' napi should be registered and enabled.\nThe ionic_qcq_enable() checks whether the .poll pointer is not NULL for\nenabling only the using queue' napi. Unused queues' napi will not be\nregistered by netif_napi_add(), so the .poll pointer indicates NULL.\nBut it couldn't distinguish whether the napi was unregistered or not\nbecause netif_napi_del() doesn't reset the .poll pointer to NULL.\nSo, ionic_qcq_enable() calls napi_enable() for the queue, which was\nunregistered by netif_napi_del().\n\nReproducer:\n   ethtool -L \u003cinterface name\u003e rx 1 tx 1 combined 0\n   ethtool -L \u003cinterface name\u003e rx 0 tx 0 combined 1\n   ethtool -L \u003cinterface name\u003e rx 0 tx 0 combined 4\n\nSplat looks like:\nkernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6666!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 3 PID: 1057 Comm: kworker/3:3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2+ #16\nWorkqueue: events ionic_lif_deferred_work [ionic]\nRIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x3b/0x40\nCode: 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 f6 80 b9 61 09 00 00 00 74 0d 48 83 bf 60 01 00 00 00 74 03 80 ce 01 f0 4f\nRSP: 0018:ffffb6ed83227d48 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff97560cda0828 RCX: 0000000000000029\nRDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff97560cda0a28\nRBP: ffffb6ed83227d50 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000001\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffff97560ce3c1a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff975613ba0a20\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff975d5f780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f8f734ee200 CR3: 0000000103e50000 CR4: 00000000007506f0\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? die+0x33/0x90\n ? do_trap+0xd9/0x100\n ? napi_enable+0x3b/0x40\n ? do_error_trap+0x83/0xb0\n ? napi_enable+0x3b/0x40\n ? napi_enable+0x3b/0x40\n ? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70\n ? napi_enable+0x3b/0x40\n ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n ? napi_enable+0x3b/0x40\n ionic_qcq_enable+0xb7/0x180 [ionic 59bdfc8a035436e1c4224ff7d10789e3f14643f8]\n ionic_start_queues+0xc4/0x290 [ionic 59bdfc8a035436e1c4224ff7d10789e3f14643f8]\n ionic_link_status_check+0x11c/0x170 [ionic 59bdfc8a035436e1c4224ff7d10789e3f14643f8]\n ionic_lif_deferred_work+0x129/0x280 [ionic 59bdfc8a035436e1c4224ff7d10789e3f14643f8]\n process_one_work+0x145/0x360\n worker_thread+0x2bb/0x3d0\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0xcc/0x100\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d19267cb150e8f76ade210e16ee820a77f684e7"},{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff9c2a9426ecf5b9631e9fd74993b357262387d6"},{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8edd18dab443863e9e48f084e7f123fca3065e4e"},{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60cd714871cd5a683353a355cbb17a685245cf84"},{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"183ebc167a8a19e916b885d4bb61a3491991bfa5"},{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a87d72b37b9ec2c1e18fe36b09241d8b30334a2e"},{"version":"0f3154e6bcb354968cc04f7cd86ce466f7b9a814","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79f18a41dd056115d685f3b0a419c7cd40055e13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.279","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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