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netdevsim: update queue NAPI association on queue reset

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

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CVE-2026-90113

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-90113

Linux

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Linux

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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "5bc8e8dbef27b73bd7b6d1fd5108b4fd4c6d469f",
        "lessThan": "b8f32b0804b4bf0cba0ee0a093e3fd74f11d7166",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
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        "lessThan": "db038ac4dca0fa626199e9c297eddd8362be0550",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "5bc8e8dbef27b73bd7b6d1fd5108b4fd4c6d469f",
        "lessThan": "07e98a4d5e9c292eae97c9cc5ab0937384e48492",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "6.14"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.14",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "6.18.52",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.2.6",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.3",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
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