Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.10.254 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
Some physical adapters on Power systems do not support segmentation
offload when the MSS is less than 224 bytes. Attempting to send such
packets causes the adapter to freeze, stopping all traffic until
manually reset.
Implement ndo_features_check to disable GSO for packets with small MSS
values. The network stack will perform software segmentation instead.
The 224-byte minimum matches ibmvnic
commit <f10b09ef687f> ("ibmvnic: Enforce stronger sanity checks
on GSO packets")
which uses the same physical adapters in SEA configurations.
The issue occurs specifically when the hardware attempts to perform
segmentation (gso_segs > 1) with a small MSS. Single-segment GSO packets
(gso_segs == 1) do not trigger the problematic LSO code path and are
transmitted normally without segmentation.
Add an ndo_features_check callback to disable GSO when MSS < 224 bytes.
Also call vlan_features_check() to ensure proper handling of VLAN packets,
particularly QinQ (802.1ad) configurations where the hardware parser may
not support certain offload features.
Validated using iptables to force small MSS values. Without the fix,
the adapter freezes. With the fix, packets are segmented in software
and transmission succeeds. Comprehensive regression testing completedd
(MSS tests, performance, stability).
CVSS Score
8.6
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing
skb_try_coalesce() can attach paged frags from @from to @to. If @from
has SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set, the resulting @to skb can contain the same
externally-owned or page-cache-backed frags, but the shared-frag marker
is currently lost.
That breaks the invariant relied on by later in-place writers. In
particular, ESP input checks skb_has_shared_frag() before deciding
whether an uncloned nonlinear skb can skip skb_cow_data(). If TCP
receive coalescing has moved shared frags into an unmarked skb, ESP can
see skb_has_shared_frag() as false and decrypt in place over page-cache
backed frags.
Propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG when skb_try_coalesce() transfers paged
frags. The tailroom copy path does not need the marker because it copies
bytes into @to's linear data rather than transferring frag descriptors.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-05-23
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present
The DATA-packet handler in rxrpc_input_call_event() and the RESPONSE
handler in rxrpc_verify_response() copy the skb to a linear one before
calling into the security ops only when skb_cloned() is true. An skb
that is not cloned but still carries externally-owned paged fragments
(e.g. SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set by splice() into a UDP socket via
__ip_append_data, or a chained skb_has_frag_list()) falls through to
the in-place decryption path, which binds the frag pages directly into
the AEAD/skcipher SGL via skb_to_sgvec().
Extend the gate to also unshare when skb_has_frag_list() or
skb_has_shared_frag() is true. This catches the splice-loopback vector
and other externally-shared frag sources while preserving the
zero-copy fast path for skbs whose frags are kernel-private (e.g. NIC
page_pool RX, GRO). The OOM/trace handling already in place is reused.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.403
Published
2026-05-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2306!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0xa08/0xfe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2306
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004aff760 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88807e3c8780 RCX: ffffffff89593e0e
RDX: ffff88807b7c4900 RSI: ffffffff89594747 RDI: ffff88807b7c4900
RBP: 0000000000000820 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000961a63e0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88807e3c8780
R13: 00000000961a6560 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 00000000961a63e0
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe1a0ed8df0 CR3: 000000002d816000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ipgre_header+0xdd/0x540 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c:900
dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3439 [inline]
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3028 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x3ae5/0x53c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3108
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xa54/0xc30 net/socket.c:2592
___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2646
__sys_sendmsg+0x170/0x220 net/socket.c:2678
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe1a0e6c1a9
When a non-Ethernet device (e.g. GRE tunnel) is enslaved to a bond,
bond_setup_by_slave() directly copies the slave's header_ops to the
bond device:
bond_dev->header_ops = slave_dev->header_ops;
This causes a type confusion when dev_hard_header() is later called
on the bond device. Functions like ipgre_header(), ip6gre_header(),all use
netdev_priv(dev) to access their device-specific private data. When
called with the bond device, netdev_priv() returns the bond's private
data (struct bonding) instead of the expected type (e.g. struct
ip_tunnel), leading to garbage values being read and kernel crashes.
Fix this by introducing bond_header_ops with wrapper functions that
delegate to the active slave's header_ops using the slave's own
device. This ensures netdev_priv() in the slave's header functions
always receives the correct device.
The fix is placed in the bonding driver rather than individual device
drivers, as the root cause is bond blindly inheriting header_ops from
the slave without considering that these callbacks expect a specific
netdev_priv() layout.
The type confusion can be observed by adding a printk in
ipgre_header() and running the following commands:
ip link add dummy0 type dummy
ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev dummy0
ip link set dummy0 up
ip link add gre1 type gre local 10.0.0.1
ip link add bond1 type bond mode active-backup
ip link set gre1 master bond1
ip link set gre1 up
ip link set bond1 up
ip addr add fe80::1/64 dev bond1
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-pci: Fix race bug in nvme_poll_irqdisable()
In the following scenario, pdev can be disabled between (1) and (3) by
(2). This sets pdev->msix_enabled = 0. Then, pci_irq_vector() will
return MSI-X IRQ(>15) for (1) whereas return INTx IRQ(<=15) for (2).
This causes IRQ warning because it tries to enable INTx IRQ that has
never been disabled before.
To fix this, save IRQ number into a local variable and ensure
disable_irq() and enable_irq() operate on the same IRQ number. Even if
pci_free_irq_vectors() frees the IRQ concurrently, disable_irq() and
enable_irq() on a stale IRQ number is still valid and safe, and the
depth accounting reamins balanced.
task 1:
nvme_poll_irqdisable()
disable_irq(pci_irq_vector(pdev, nvmeq->cq_vector)) ...(1)
enable_irq(pci_irq_vector(pdev, nvmeq->cq_vector)) ...(3)
task 2:
nvme_reset_work()
nvme_dev_disable()
pdev->msix_enable = 0; ...(2)
crash log:
------------[ cut here ]------------
Unbalanced enable for IRQ 10
WARNING: kernel/irq/manage.c:753 at __enable_irq+0x102/0x190 kernel/irq/manage.c:753, CPU#1: kworker/1:0H/26
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 26 Comm: kworker/1:0H Not tainted 6.19.0-dirty #9 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_timeout_work
RIP: 0010:__enable_irq+0x107/0x190 kernel/irq/manage.c:753
Code: ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 0f b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 04 84 d2 75 79 48 8d 3d 2e 7a 3f 05 41 8b 74 24 2c <67> 48 0f b9 3a e8 ef b9 21 00 5b 41 5c 5d e9 46 54 66 03 e8 e1 b9
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001bf550 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffffb20c0e90
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000a RDI: ffffffffb74b88f0
RBP: ffffc900001bf560 R08: ffff88800197cf00 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff8880012a6000
R13: 1ffff92000037eae R14: 000000000000000a R15: 0000000000000293
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b49f7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555da4a25fa8 CR3: 00000000208e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
enable_irq+0x121/0x1e0 kernel/irq/manage.c:797
nvme_poll_irqdisable+0x162/0x1c0 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c:1494
nvme_timeout+0x965/0x14b0 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c:1744
blk_mq_rq_timed_out block/blk-mq.c:1653 [inline]
blk_mq_handle_expired+0x227/0x2d0 block/blk-mq.c:1721
bt_iter+0x2fc/0x3a0 block/blk-mq-tag.c:292
__sbitmap_for_each_set include/linux/sbitmap.h:269 [inline]
sbitmap_for_each_set include/linux/sbitmap.h:290 [inline]
bt_for_each block/blk-mq-tag.c:324 [inline]
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter+0x969/0x1e80 block/blk-mq-tag.c:536
blk_mq_timeout_work+0x627/0x870 block/blk-mq.c:1763
process_one_work+0x956/0x1aa0 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
worker_thread+0x65c/0xe60 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x41a/0x930 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x6f8/0x8c0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
</TASK>
irq event stamp: 74478
hardirqs last enabled at (74477): [<ffffffffb5720a9c>] __raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:159 [inline]
hardirqs last enabled at (74477): [<ffffffffb5720a9c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:202
hardirqs last disabled at (74478): [<ffffffffb57207b5>] __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:108 [inline]
hardirqs last disabled at (74478): [<ffffffffb57207b5>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x85/0xa0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
softirqs last enabled at (74304): [<ffffffffb1e9466c>] __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
softirqs last enabled at (74304): [<ffffffffb1e9466c>] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
softirqs last enabled at (74304): [<ffffffffb1e9466c>] __irq_exit_rcu+0xdc/0x120
---truncated---
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_ncm: Fix net_device lifecycle with device_move
The network device outlived its parent gadget device during
disconnection, resulting in dangling sysfs links and null pointer
dereference problems.
A prior attempt to solve this by removing SET_NETDEV_DEV entirely [1]
was reverted due to power management ordering concerns and a NO-CARRIER
regression.
A subsequent attempt to defer net_device allocation to bind [2] broke
1:1 mapping between function instance and network device, making it
impossible for configfs to report the resolved interface name. This
results in a regression where the DHCP server fails on pmOS.
Use device_move to reparent the net_device between the gadget device and
/sys/devices/virtual/ across bind/unbind cycles. This preserves the
network interface across USB reconnection, allowing the DHCP server to
retain their binding.
Introduce gether_attach_gadget()/gether_detach_gadget() helpers and use
__free(detach_gadget) macro to undo attachment on bind failure. The
bind_count ensures device_move executes only on the first bind.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f2a4f9847617a0929d62025748384092e5f35cce.camel@crapouillou.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/795ea759-7eaf-4f78-81f4-01ffbf2d7961@ixit.cz/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: hisi_sas: Fix NULL pointer exception during user_scan()
user_scan() invokes updated sas_user_scan() for channel 0, and if
successful, iteratively scans remaining channels (1 to shost->max_channel)
via scsi_scan_host_selected() in commit 37c4e72b0651 ("scsi: Fix
sas_user_scan() to handle wildcard and multi-channel scans"). However,
hisi_sas supports only one channel, and the current value of max_channel is
1. sas_user_scan() for channel 1 will trigger the following NULL pointer
exception:
[ 441.554662] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000008b0
[ 441.554699] Mem abort info:
[ 441.554710] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 441.554718] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 441.554723] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 441.554726] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 441.554730] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 441.554735] Data abort info:
[ 441.554737] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 441.554742] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 441.554747] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 441.554752] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000828377a6000
[ 441.554757] [00000000000008b0] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 441.554769] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
[ 441.629589] Modules linked in: arm_spe_pmu arm_smmuv3_pmu tpm_tis_spi hisi_uncore_sllc_pmu hisi_uncore_pa_pmu hisi_uncore_l3c_pmu hisi_uncore_hha_pmu hisi_uncore_ddrc_pmu hisi_uncore_cpa_pmu hns3_pmu hisi_ptt hisi_pcie_pmu tpm_tis_core spidev spi_hisi_sfc_v3xx hisi_uncore_pmu spi_dw_mmio fuse hclge hclge_common hisi_sec2 hisi_hpre hisi_zip hisi_qm hns3 hisi_sas_v3_hw sm3_ce sbsa_gwdt hnae3 hisi_sas_main uacce hisi_dma i2c_hisi dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[ 441.670819] CPU: 46 UID: 0 PID: 6994 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 7.0.0-rc2+ #84 PREEMPT
[ 441.691327] pstate: 81400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 441.698277] pc : sas_find_dev_by_rphy+0x44/0x118
[ 441.702896] lr : sas_find_dev_by_rphy+0x3c/0x118
[ 441.707502] sp : ffff80009abbba40
[ 441.710805] x29: ffff80009abbba40 x28: ffff082819a40008 x27: ffff082810c37c08
[ 441.717930] x26: ffff082810c37c28 x25: ffff082819a40290 x24: ffff082810c37c00
[ 441.725054] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: ffff082819a40000
[ 441.732179] x20: ffff082819a40290 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000020
[ 441.739304] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffb5dad6bda690 x15: 00000000ffffffff
[ 441.746428] x14: ffff082814c3b26c x13: 00000000ffffffff x12: ffff082814c3b26a
[ 441.753553] x11: 00000000000000c0 x10: 000000000000003a x9 : ffffb5dad5ea94f4
[ 441.760678] x8 : 000000000000003a x7 : ffff80009abbbab0 x6 : 0000000000000030
[ 441.767802] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
[ 441.774926] x2 : ffff08280f35a300 x1 : ffffb5dad7127180 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 441.782053] Call trace:
[ 441.784488] sas_find_dev_by_rphy+0x44/0x118 (P)
[ 441.789095] sas_target_alloc+0x24/0xb0
[ 441.792920] scsi_alloc_target+0x290/0x330
[ 441.797010] __scsi_scan_target+0x88/0x258
[ 441.801096] scsi_scan_channel+0x74/0xb8
[ 441.805008] scsi_scan_host_selected+0x170/0x188
[ 441.809615] sas_user_scan+0xfc/0x148
[ 441.813267] store_scan+0x10c/0x180
[ 441.816743] dev_attr_store+0x20/0x40
[ 441.820398] sysfs_kf_write+0x84/0xa8
[ 441.824054] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x130/0x1c8
[ 441.828487] vfs_write+0x2c0/0x370
[ 441.831880] ksys_write+0x74/0x118
[ 441.835271] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
[ 441.839182] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
[ 441.842919] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
[ 441.847611] do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
[ 441.850913] el0_svc+0x38/0x158
[ 441.854043] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
[ 441.858214] el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
[ 441.861865] Code: aa1303e0 97ff70a8 34ffff80 d10a4273 (f9445a75)
[ 441.867946] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Therefore
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain
It may happen that mm is already released, which leads to kernel panic.
This adds the NULL check for current->mm, similarly to
commit 20afc60f892d ("x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain").
I was getting this panic when running a profiling BPF program
(profile.py from bcc-tools):
[26215.051935] Kernel attempted to read user page (588) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
[26215.051950] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000588
[26215.051952] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000020fac0
[26215.051957] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[...]
[26215.052049] Call Trace:
[26215.052050] [c000000061da6d30] [c00000000020fc10] perf_callchain_user_64+0x2d0/0x490 (unreliable)
[26215.052054] [c000000061da6dc0] [c00000000020f92c] perf_callchain_user+0x1c/0x30
[26215.052057] [c000000061da6de0] [c0000000005ab2a0] get_perf_callchain+0x100/0x360
[26215.052063] [c000000061da6e70] [c000000000573bc8] bpf_get_stackid+0x88/0xf0
[26215.052067] [c000000061da6ea0] [c008000000042258] bpf_prog_16d4ab9ab662f669_do_perf_event+0xf8/0x274
[...]
In addition, move storing the top-level stack entry to generic
perf_callchain_user to make sure the top-evel entry is always captured,
even if current->mm is NULL.
[Maddy: fixed message to avoid checkpatch format style error]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: fix memory leaks in ceph_mdsc_build_path()
Add __putname() calls to error code paths that did not free the "path"
pointer obtained by __getname(). If ownership of this pointer is not
passed to the caller via path_info.path, the function must free it
before returning.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed
After we hit ftrace is killed by some errors, the kernel crash if
we remove modules in which kprobe probes.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff805000d
PGD 817fcc067 P4D 817fcc067 PUD 817fc8067 PMD 101555067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 2012 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W OE
Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
RIP: 0010:kprobes_module_callback+0x89/0x790
RSP: 0018:ffff88812e157d30 EFLAGS: 00010a02
RAX: 1ffffffff805000d RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffffffff86a8de90
RDX: ffffed1025c2af9b RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffc0280068
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1025c2af9a
R10: ffff88812e157cd7 R11: 205d323130325420 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffffc0290488 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffffffffc0280040
FS: 00007fbc450dd740(0000) GS:ffff888420331000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffbfff805000d CR3: 000000010f624000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
notifier_call_chain+0xc6/0x280
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x60/0x90
__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x32a/0x4e0
do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xfa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
This is because the kprobe on ftrace does not correctly handles
the kprobe_ftrace_disabled flag set by ftrace_kill().
To prevent this error, check kprobe_ftrace_disabled in
__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and skip all ftrace related operations.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
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