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CVE-2026-97981

net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work The RX loop only consumes budget when it successfully delivers a frame. Error paths keep consuming descriptors without reducing the budget, so a stream of bad frames can process the entire receive ring in one poll. Move the budget accounting to a common end-of-frame path. This counts each completed frame as NAPI work whether it was delivered or dropped, matching the behavior of the vendor driver.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before 620b7184808b25cf58268856f892b9ba83c181fd; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before 9620e2ce9b5998ebbf157241f296f8ddb92285c2; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before 27b5753077d1cfda5fe201d2ba602de76a9a09b1; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before e858b9b1ea3cbbc353189d07dec40dc16967e290; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before 58140f1cebb776d174dc6ff41c15401654a5b1ea; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before cceb6cd7f0e5ed2944a9ca22443d7b9da82f60ab; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before 5754e0c0758805096ecfeaf4c1b146ad51ed246f; affected 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 before b856c552f556bc0341c1dbe0bf88e630fd1dc4b7
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.16; unaffected 0 before 4.16; unaffected 5.10.271 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.222 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.189 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.111 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.53 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.7 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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