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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-42071"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-29T15:52:34.714Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:35:29.256Z"
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-2024-42071"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42071.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42071"
title: "ionic: use dev_consume_skb_any outside of napi"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nionic: use dev_consume_skb_any outside of napi\n\nIf we're not in a NAPI softirq context, we need to be careful\nabout how we call napi_consume_skb(), specifically we need to\ncall it with budget==0 to signal to it that we're not in a\nsafe context.\n\nThis was found while running some configuration stress testing\nof traffic and a change queue config loop running, and this\ncurious note popped out:\n\n[ 4371.402645] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: ethtool/20545\n[ 4371.402897] caller is napi_skb_cache_put+0x16/0x80\n[ 4371.403120] CPU: 25 PID: 20545 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE      6.10.0-rc3-netnext+ #8\n[ 4371.403302] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 01/23/2021\n[ 4371.403460] Call Trace:\n[ 4371.403613]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 4371.403758]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x70\n[ 4371.403904]  check_preemption_disabled+0xc1/0xe0\n[ 4371.404051]  napi_skb_cache_put+0x16/0x80\n[ 4371.404199]  ionic_tx_clean+0x18a/0x240 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404354]  ionic_tx_cq_service+0xc4/0x200 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404505]  ionic_tx_flush+0x15/0x70 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404653]  ? ionic_lif_qcq_deinit.isra.23+0x5b/0x70 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404805]  ionic_txrx_deinit+0x71/0x190 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404956]  ionic_reconfigure_queues+0x5f5/0xff0 [ionic]\n[ 4371.405111]  ionic_set_ringparam+0x2e8/0x3e0 [ionic]\n[ 4371.405265]  ethnl_set_rings+0x1f1/0x300\n[ 4371.405418]  ethnl_default_set_doit+0xbb/0x160\n[ 4371.405571]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xff/0x130\n\t[...]\n\nI found that ionic_tx_clean() calls napi_consume_skb() which calls\nnapi_skb_cache_put(), but before that last call is the note\n    /* Zero budget indicate non-NAPI context called us, like netpoll */\nand\n    DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_softirq());\n\nThose are pretty big hints that we're doing it wrong.  We can pass a\ncontext hint down through the calls to let ionic_tx_clean() know what\nwe're doing so it can call napi_consume_skb() correctly."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"386e69865311044b576ff536c99c6ee9cc98a228","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef7646ed49fff962e97b276f4ab91327a67eeb5a"},{"version":"386e69865311044b576ff536c99c6ee9cc98a228","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84b767f9e34fdb143c09e66a2a20722fc2921821"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.9.8","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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