Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.10.197 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeontx2-af: Workaround SQM/PSE stalls by disabling sticky
NIX SQ manager sticky mode is known to cause stalls when multiple SQs
share an SMQ and transmit concurrently. Additionally, PSE may deadlock
on transitions between sticky and non-sticky transmissions. There is
also a credit drop issue observed when certain condition clocks are
gated.
work around these hardware errata by:
- Disabling SQM sticky operation:
- Clear TM6 (bit 15)
- Clear TM11 (bit 14)
- Disabling sticky → non-sticky transition path that can deadlock PSE:
- Clear TM5 (bit 23)
- Preventing credit drops by keeping the control-flow clock enabled:
- Set TM9 (bit 21)
These changes are applied via NIX_AF_SQM_DBG_CTL_STATUS. With this
configuration the SQM/PSE maintain forward progress under load without
credit loss, at the cost of disabling sticky optimizations.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm: Account property blob allocations to memcg
DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATEPROPBLOB allows userspace to allocate arbitrary-sized
property blobs backed by kernel memory.
Currently, the blob data allocation is not accounted to the allocating
process's memory cgroup, allowing unprivileged users to trigger unbounded
kernel memory consumption and potentially cause system-wide OOM.
Mark the property blob data allocation with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so that the memory
is properly charged to the caller's memcg. This ensures existing cgroup
memory limits apply and prevents uncontrolled kernel memory growth without
introducing additional policy or per-file limits.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: move ext4_percpu_param_init() before ext4_mb_init()
When running `kvm-xfstests -c ext4/1k -C 1 generic/383` with the
`DOUBLE_CHECK` macro defined, the following panic is triggered:
==================================================================
EXT4-fs error (device vdc): ext4_validate_block_bitmap:423:
comm mount: bg 0: bad block bitmap checksum
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ff110000fa2cc000
PGD 3e01067 P4D 3e02067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2386 Comm: mount Tainted: G W
6.18.0-gba65a4e7120a-dirty #1152 PREEMPT(none)
RIP: 0010:percpu_counter_add_batch+0x13/0xa0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ext4_mark_group_bitmap_corrupted+0xcb/0xe0
ext4_validate_block_bitmap+0x2a1/0x2f0
ext4_read_block_bitmap+0x33/0x50
mb_group_bb_bitmap_alloc+0x33/0x80
ext4_mb_add_groupinfo+0x190/0x250
ext4_mb_init_backend+0x87/0x290
ext4_mb_init+0x456/0x640
__ext4_fill_super+0x1072/0x1680
ext4_fill_super+0xd3/0x280
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x132/0x1d0
vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xd0
vfs_cmd_create+0x59/0xe0
__do_sys_fsconfig+0x4f6/0x6b0
do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
==================================================================
This issue can be reproduced using the following commands:
mkfs.ext4 -F -q -b 1024 /dev/sda 5G
tune2fs -O quota,project /dev/sda
mount /dev/sda /tmp/test
With DOUBLE_CHECK defined, mb_group_bb_bitmap_alloc() reads
and validates the block bitmap. When the validation fails,
ext4_mark_group_bitmap_corrupted() attempts to update
sbi->s_freeclusters_counter. However, this percpu_counter has not been
initialized yet at this point, which leads to the panic described above.
Fix this by moving the execution of ext4_percpu_param_init() to occur
before ext4_mb_init(), ensuring the per-CPU counters are initialized
before they are used.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kexec: derive purgatory entry from symbol
kexec_load_purgatory() derives image->start by locating e_entry inside an
SHF_EXECINSTR section. If the purgatory object contains multiple
executable sections with overlapping sh_addr, the entrypoint check can
match more than once and trigger a WARN.
Derive the entry section from the purgatory_start symbol when present and
compute image->start from its final placement. Keep the existing e_entry
fallback for purgatories that do not expose the symbol.
WARNING: kernel/kexec_file.c:1009 at kexec_load_purgatory+0x395/0x3c0, CPU#10: kexec/1784
Call Trace:
<TASK>
bzImage64_load+0x133/0xa00
__do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x2b3/0x5c0
do_syscall_64+0x81/0x610
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[me@linux.beauty: move helper to avoid forward declaration, per Baoquan]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: 8822b: Avoid WARNING in rtw8822b_config_trx_mode()
rtw8822b_set_antenna() can be called from userspace when the chip is
powered off. In that case a WARNING is triggered in
rtw8822b_config_trx_mode() because trying to read the RF registers
when the chip is powered off returns an unexpected value.
Call rtw8822b_config_trx_mode() in rtw8822b_set_antenna() only when
the chip is powered on.
------------[ cut here ]------------
write RF mode table fail
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7183 at rtw8822b.c:824 rtw8822b_config_trx_mode.constprop.0+0x835/0x840 [rtw88_8822b]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7183 Comm: iw Tainted: G W OE 6.17.5-arch1-1 #1 PREEMPT(full) 01c39fc421df2af799dd5e9180b572af860b40c1
Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: LENOVO 82KR/LNVNB161216, BIOS HBCN18WW 08/27/2021
RIP: 0010:rtw8822b_config_trx_mode.constprop.0+0x835/0x840 [rtw88_8822b]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
rtw8822b_set_antenna+0x57/0x70 [rtw88_8822b 370206f42e5890d8d5f48eb358b759efa37c422b]
rtw_ops_set_antenna+0x50/0x80 [rtw88_core 711c8fb4f686162be4625b1d0b8e8c6a5ac850fb]
ieee80211_set_antenna+0x60/0x100 [mac80211 f1845d85d2ecacf3b71867635a050ece90486cf3]
nl80211_set_wiphy+0x384/0xe00 [cfg80211 296485ee85696d2150309a6d21a7fbca83d3dbda]
? netdev_run_todo+0x63/0x550
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xfc/0x160
genl_rcv_msg+0x1aa/0x2b0
? __pfx_nl80211_pre_doit+0x10/0x10 [cfg80211 296485ee85696d2150309a6d21a7fbca83d3dbda]
? __pfx_nl80211_set_wiphy+0x10/0x10 [cfg80211 296485ee85696d2150309a6d21a7fbca83d3dbda]
? __pfx_nl80211_post_doit+0x10/0x10 [cfg80211 296485ee85696d2150309a6d21a7fbca83d3dbda]
? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
netlink_rcv_skb+0x59/0x110
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x285/0x3c0
? __alloc_skb+0xdb/0x1a0
netlink_sendmsg+0x20d/0x430
____sys_sendmsg+0x39f/0x3d0
? import_iovec+0x2f/0x40
___sys_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0
? refill_obj_stock+0x12e/0x240
__sys_sendmsg+0x8a/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x81/0x970
? do_syscall_64+0x81/0x970
? ksys_read+0x73/0xf0
? do_syscall_64+0x81/0x970
? count_memcg_events+0xc2/0x190
? handle_mm_fault+0x1d7/0x2d0
? do_user_addr_fault+0x21a/0x690
? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES can attach pages from a pipe directly to an skb. TCP
marks such skbs with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG after skb_splice_from_iter(),
so later paths that may modify packet data can first make a private
copy. The IPv4/IPv6 datagram append paths did not set this flag when
splicing pages into UDP skbs.
That leaves an ESP-in-UDP packet made from shared pipe pages looking
like an ordinary uncloned nonlinear skb. ESP input then takes the no-COW
fast path for uncloned skbs without a frag_list and decrypts in place
over data that is not owned privately by the skb.
Mark IPv4/IPv6 datagram splice frags with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG, matching
TCP. Also make ESP input fall back to skb_cow_data() when the flag is
present, so ESP does not decrypt externally backed frags in place.
Private nonlinear skb frags still use the existing fast path.
This intentionally does not change ESP output. In esp_output_head(),
the path that appends the ESP trailer to existing skb tailroom without
calling skb_cow_data() is not reachable for nonlinear skbs:
skb_tailroom() returns zero when skb->data_len is nonzero, while ESP
tailen is positive. Thus ESP output will either use the separate
destination-frag path or fall back to skb_cow_data().
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.263
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
APEI/GHES: ensure that won't go past CPER allocated record
The logic at ghes_new() prevents allocating too large records, by
checking if they're bigger than GHES_ESTATUS_MAX_SIZE (currently, 64KB).
Yet, the allocation is done with the actual number of pages from the
CPER bios table location, which can be smaller.
Yet, a bad firmware could send data with a different size, which might
be bigger than the allocated memory, causing an OOPS:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fff00000f9b40000
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000096000007
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x07: level 3 translation fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000007, ISS2 = 0x00000000
CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 52-bit VAs, pgdp=000000008ba16000
[fff00000f9b40000] pgd=180000013ffff403, p4d=180000013fffe403, pud=180000013f85b403, pmd=180000013f68d403, pte=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000007 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 303 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1-00002-gda407d200220 #34 PREEMPT
Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
pstate: 214020c5 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : hex_dump_to_buffer+0x30c/0x4a0
lr : hex_dump_to_buffer+0x328/0x4a0
sp : ffff800080e13880
x29: ffff800080e13880 x28: ffffac9aba86f6a8 x27: 0000000000000083
x26: fff00000f9b3fffc x25: 0000000000000004 x24: 0000000000000004
x23: ffff800080e13905 x22: 0000000000000010 x21: 0000000000000083
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000008 x18: 0000000000000010
x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 00000007c7f20fec x15: 0000000000000020
x14: 0000000000000008 x13: 0000000000081020 x12: 0000000000000008
x11: ffff800080e13905 x10: ffff800080e13988 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000020
x5 : 0000000000000030 x4 : 00000000fffffffe x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffffac9aba78c1c8 x1 : ffffac9aba76d0a8 x0 : 0000000000000008
Call trace:
hex_dump_to_buffer+0x30c/0x4a0 (P)
print_hex_dump+0xac/0x170
cper_estatus_print_section+0x90c/0x968
cper_estatus_print+0xf0/0x158
__ghes_print_estatus+0xa0/0x148
ghes_proc+0x1bc/0x220
ghes_notify_hed+0x5c/0xb8
notifier_call_chain+0x78/0x148
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x80
acpi_hed_notify+0x28/0x40
acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x50/0x80
acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x24/0x48
process_one_work+0x15c/0x3b0
worker_thread+0x2d0/0x400
kthread+0x148/0x228
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Code: 6b14033f 540001ad a94707e2 f100029f (b8747b44)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Prevent that by taking the actual allocated are into account when
checking for CPER length.
[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing
At silencing the playback URB packets in the implicit fb mode before
the actual playback, we blindly assume that the received packets fit
with the buffer size. But when the setup in the capture stream
differs from the playback stream (e.g. due to the USB core limitation
of max packet size), such an inconsistency may lead to OOB writes to
the buffer, resulting in a crash.
For addressing it, add a sanity check of the transfer buffer size at
prepare_silent_urb(), and stop the data copy if the received data
overflows. Also, report back the transfer error properly from there,
too.
Note that this doesn't fix the root cause of the playback error
itself, but this merely covers the kernel Oops.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mailbox: Prevent out-of-bounds access in fw_mbox_index_xlate()
Although it is guided that `#mbox-cells` must be at least 1, there are
many instances of `#mbox-cells = <0>;` in the device tree. If that is
the case and the corresponding mailbox controller does not provide
`fw_xlate` and of_xlate` function pointers, `fw_mbox_index_xlate()` will
be used by default and out-of-bounds accesses could occur due to lack of
bounds check in that function.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: ec_bhf: Fix dma_free_coherent() dma handle
dma_free_coherent() in error path takes priv->rx_buf.alloc_len as
the dma handle. This would lead to improper unmapping of the buffer.
Change the dma handle to priv->rx_buf.alloc_phys.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06