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CVE-2026-74527

octeontx2-af: Block VFs from clobbering special CGX PKIND state PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: Block VFs from clobbering special CGX PKIND state PF and VF NIX LFs that share a CGX LMAC reuse the same hardware PKIND programming. When HiGig2 or EDSA parsing is enabled, a VF NIX LF alloc must not reset the LMAC RX PKIND or default TX parse config over the PF setup. Add cgx_get_pkind() and rvu_cgx_is_pkind_config_permitted() so VFs skip cgx_set_pkind(), rvu_npc_set_pkind(), and NIX_AF_LFX_TX_PARSE_CFG updates when the LMAC is using NPC_RX_HIGIG_PKIND or NPC_RX_EDSA_PKIND.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 before 1106b26e86ac1e7e4d1f634bcd532c5d44e60620; affected 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 before 7e888d7dd11519330ba6c6a28391d55891463a6a; affected 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 before a76243488740a07c81c9adf431685bb7f7c31d8c; affected 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 before d3c6b0f48f126a36955b3fb4154a59d0b3621d97; affected 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 before 3bd438a58e910db5dc369aa25dfed1fc95f1b596
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.20; unaffected 0 before 4.20; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.114 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.57 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.8 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

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