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eth: nfp: drop the replaced rule from the list when reprogramming fails

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: nfp: drop the replaced rule from the list when reprogramming fails nfp_net_fs_add() replaces an existing rule by deleting it from the hardware, decrementing nn->fs.count and programming the new one. If nfp_net_fs_add_hw() fails the old entry stays on nn->fs.list - only the success path reaches list_replace() - so the list is one longer than nn->fs.count, and it advertises a rule whose hardware entry has already been torn down. nn->fs.count is what ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLCNT reports, so userspace then sizes its buffer one entry short of what the GRXCLSRLALL walk wants to write. That used to overwrite one u32 past the allocation; since the walk is bounded it is a permanent -EMSGSIZE instead, as nothing ever resyncs the counter.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7
CVEs
CVE-2026-98028
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
2 Nov 2026, 23:02 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

eth: nfp: drop the replaced rule from the list when reprogramming fails

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Sept 2026, 10:23 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: nfp: drop the replaced rule from the list when reprogramming fails nfp_net_fs_add() replaces an existing rule by deleting it from the hardware, decrementing nn->fs.count and programming the new one. If nfp_net_fs_add_hw() fails the old entry stays on nn->fs.list - only the success path reaches list_replace() - so the list is one longer than nn->fs.count, and it advertises a rule whose hardware entry has already been torn down. nn->fs.count is what ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLCNT reports, so userspace then sizes its buffer one entry short of what the GRXCLSRLALL walk wants to write. That used to overwrite one u32 past the allocation; since the walk is bounded it is a permanent -EMSGSIZE instead, as nothing ever resyncs the counter.

osv:CVE-2026-98028

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7

Complete source record
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