CVE-2026-98277
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Network Ring Doorbell Missing in fbnic Driver
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-98277, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-06
Last updated on: 2026-10-06
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eth: fbnic: ring the doorbell if a burst ends in a drop
fbnic_tx_map() skips the doorbell write, and the completion request,
for every packet handed to it with xmit_more set, counting on the
packet which ends the burst to publish them all. When that packet is
dropped instead - skb_put_padto(), skb_cow_head() or a DMA mapping
failure - nothing rings. The descriptors of the preceding packets stay
invisible to the HW until the next transmit on that queue, which for a
burst-then-idle workload may never come.
Remember the meta descriptor of the last packet left without a doorbell
and flush it from the error paths. The completion request has to be set
on that descriptor rather than simply writing the tail, otherwise the HW
would transmit the packets but never report a head, and the ring would
fill up and stall for good.
This is very similar to Joe's recent series of fixes for bnxt.
Not seen in real life, reproduced under QEMU with failure injection.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 9a57bacd574b52b08bc2c600af6a8c7a87049ecf |
| Linux | Linux | 9a57bacd574b52b08bc2c600af6a8c7a87049ecf |
| Linux | Linux | 9a57bacd574b52b08bc2c600af6a8c7a87049ecf |
| Linux | Linux | 6.11 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
