CVE-2026-93830
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
net: stmmac: xgmac2: disable RBUE in default RX interrupt mask
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: xgmac2: disable RBUE in default RX interrupt mask Enabling the RX Buffer Unavailable (RBUE) interrupt is counterproductive and can trigger a MAC interrupt storm under heavy RX pressure. When the DMA runs out of RX descriptors it fires RBUE continuously until software refills the ring. However, RBUE is redundant: the normal RX completion interrupt (RIE) already triggers NAPI, which processes completed descriptors and refills the ring, causing the DMA to resume. The RBUE handler itself only sets handle_rx - the same outcome as RIE. On Agilex5 under heavy RX pressure, the MAC interrupt (which includes RBUE) was observed firing 1,821,811,555 times against only 2,618,627 actual RX completions - a ~695x ratio - confirming the severity of the storm. RBUE does not provide OOM recovery. If page_pool is exhausted, stmmac_rx_refill() cannot advance the DMA tail pointer, the DMA stays suspended, and RBUE fires again on the next NAPI completion - a storm with no forward progress. This patch trades that storm for a clean stall with the same RX outcome. Proper OOM recovery is a pre-existing gap outside the scope of this fix. Note: as a consequence of disabling RBUE, the rx_buf_unav_irq ethtool counter will always read 0 on XGMAC2 devices. This behaviour is already inconsistent across DWMAC core versions. Remove RBUE from XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_EN and XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_RX to prevent the interrupt storm while keeping normal RX handling intact.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | 8c9d57b5dc098b84631d0b3559c84c499ea2170a | Unavailable | None listed |
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | 7a10e54e42a8f73a8d731f5a281fc06bb41b9250 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | 6b3b91433d5f4eae6865cdaa96f40cd67849e1f6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | 74dbb85a6a254b5fc1f265a6cd61b2ba9d9221d7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | 0b1a5d3647ce07c27a9fffefc11a8cbf7d7b25ce | Unavailable | None listed |
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | 87e2826ed2058747ddf014c082569a46bfadd96b | Unavailable | None listed |
| d6ddfacd95c79d43465d4a85dffb1c9beca343a9 | affected | git | d3265c19b35d036bba327b36b5366bee76b0157c | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.19 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.19 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.271 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.222 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.189 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.158 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.111 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.53 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |