CVE-2026-72341net/mlx5e: Fix publication race for priv->channel_stats[]
- —Not scoredno CVSS score yet
- 0.22%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 87% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix publication race for priv->channel_stats[] mlx5e_channel_stats_alloc() publishes a new entry to priv->channel_stats[] and then increments priv->stats_nch as a publication token, but neither store carries any memory barrier: priv->channel_stats[ix] = kvzalloc_node(...); if (!priv->channel_stats[ix]) return -ENOMEM; priv->stats_nch++; Concurrent readers compute the loop bound from priv->stats_nch and then dereference priv->channel_stats[i] using plain accesses, e.g. for (i = 0; i < priv->stats_nch; i++) { struct mlx5e_channel_stats *cs = priv->channel_stats[i]; ... cs->rq.packets ... } On weakly-ordered architectures (ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V) the writes to channel_stats[ix] and stats_nch may become visible to other CPUs out of program order. A reader can observe stats_nch == N while still seeing channel_stats[N-1] == NULL, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in the channel_stats loop. This has been observed in production on BlueField-3 DPUs (arm64), where ovs-vswitchd queries netdev statistics over netlink during NIC bringup, racing mlx5e_open_channel() -> mlx5e_channel_stats_alloc() on another CPU: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0x840 Hardware name: BlueField-3 DPU pc : mlx5e_fold_sw_stats64+0x30/0x180 [mlx5_core] Call trace: mlx5e_fold_sw_stats64+0x30/0x180 [mlx5_core] dev_get_stats+0x50/0xc0 ovs_vport_get_stats+0x38/0xac [openvswitch] ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info+0x194/0x290 [openvswitch] ovs_vport_cmd_get+0xbc/0x10c [openvswitch] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xd0/0x160 genl_rcv_msg+0xec/0x1f0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x64/0x130 genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 netlink_unicast+0x2fc/0x370 netlink_sendmsg+0x1dc/0x454 ... __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x2c/0x40 Add mlx5e_stats_nch_write() and mlx5e_stats_nch_read() helpers in en.h that wrap the smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire() pair on stats_nch. The release/acquire pair establishes the contract: stats_nch == N => channel_stats[0..N-1] are visible and non-NULL. Publish the stats_nch increment via mlx5e_stats_nch_write() in the writer (mlx5e_channel_stats_alloc()), and read stats_nch via mlx5e_stats_nch_read() in all readers: mlx5e RX/TX queue stats, mlx5e_get_base_stats(), ethtool channels stats, IPoIB stats, the sw_stats fold and the HV VHCA stats agent.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Received.
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 87% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.
Affected products
- affected fa691d0c9c0812b9045f3a9420862e47b3b92518 – < df122c593735aa5e1c97457767aa10ed8fa972e0
- affected fa691d0c9c0812b9045f3a9420862e47b3b92518 – < 268869794170af37727816ad02051808adb9c9c3
- affected fa691d0c9c0812b9045f3a9420862e47b3b92518 – < acd34d24342a28794e706ce8191ca6c3114a38ae
- affected fa691d0c9c0812b9045f3a9420862e47b3b92518 – < 5c7e3755abf663f033de24f917b77685e9543045
- affected fa691d0c9c0812b9045f3a9420862e47b3b92518 – < 815515ec68f527ca755cb1e2c1ff9148f6b3ea56
- affected fa691d0c9c0812b9045f3a9420862e47b3b92518 – < 5a799714e8ca0bce9ea40694f49914cf1adbbaa9
- affected 5.17
- unaffected < 5.17
- unaffected 6.1.191 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.160 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.114 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.40 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.1.5 – ≤ 7.1.*
- unaffected 7.2 – ≤ *
References
References6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df122c593735aa5e1c97457767aa10ed8fa972e0 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/268869794170af37727816ad02051808adb9c9c3 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acd34d24342a28794e706ce8191ca6c3114a38ae (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c7e3755abf663f033de24f917b77685e9543045 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/815515ec68f527ca755cb1e2c1ff9148f6b3ea56 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a799714e8ca0bce9ea40694f49914cf1adbbaa9 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-59240 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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