linux-cve-announce - CVE-2026-22993: idpf: Fix RSS LUT NULL ptr issue after soft reset

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Message-ID: <2026012352-CVE-2026-22993-2e35@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:25:04 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-22993: idpf: Fix RSS LUT NULL ptr issue after soft reset

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

idpf: Fix RSS LUT NULL ptr issue after soft reset

During soft reset, the RSS LUT is freed and not restored unless the
interface is up. If an ethtool command that accesses the rss lut is
attempted immediately after reset, it will result in NULL ptr
dereference. Also, there is no need to reset the rss lut if the soft reset
does not involve queue count change.

After soft reset, set the RSS LUT to default values based on the updated
queue count only if the reset was a result of a queue count change and
the LUT was not configured by the user. In all other cases, don't touch
the LUT.

Steps to reproduce:

** Bring the interface down (if up)
ifconfig eth1 down

** update the queue count (eg., 27->20)
ethtool -L eth1 combined 20

** display the RSS LUT
ethtool -x eth1

[82375.558338] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[82375.558373] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[82375.558391] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[82375.558408] PGD 0 P4D 0
[82375.558421] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
<snip>
[82375.558516] RIP: 0010:idpf_get_rxfh+0x108/0x150 [idpf]
[82375.558786] Call Trace:
[82375.558793]  <TASK>
[82375.558804]  rss_prepare.isra.0+0x187/0x2a0
[82375.558827]  rss_prepare_data+0x3a/0x50
[82375.558845]  ethnl_default_doit+0x13d/0x3e0
[82375.558863]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x11f/0x180
[82375.558886]  genl_rcv_msg+0x1ad/0x2b0
[82375.558902]  ? __pfx_ethnl_default_doit+0x10/0x10
[82375.558920]  ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
[82375.558937]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x100
[82375.558957]  genl_rcv+0x2c/0x50
[82375.558971]  netlink_unicast+0x289/0x3e0
[82375.558988]  netlink_sendmsg+0x215/0x440
[82375.559005]  __sys_sendto+0x234/0x240
[82375.559555]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x28/0x30
[82375.560068]  x64_sys_call+0x1909/0x1da0
[82375.560576]  do_syscall_64+0x7a/0xfa0
[82375.561076]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x60/0xb0
[82375.561567]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
<snip>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-22993 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit 02cbfba1add5bd9088c7d14c6b93b77a6ea8f3bb and fixed in 6.18.6 with commit ab92fa4dd81beaaed4e93a851f7a37c9b2d9776f
	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit 02cbfba1add5bd9088c7d14c6b93b77a6ea8f3bb and fixed in 6.19-rc5 with commit ebecca5b093895da801b3eba1a55b4ec4027d196

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-22993
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab92fa4dd81beaaed4e93a851f7a37c9b2d9776f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebecca5b093895da801b3eba1a55b4ec4027d196