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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-74691 EUVD-2026-64378GHSA-m57c-v73h-37p6

net: thunderbolt: Tear down DMA paths before stopping the rings

Published Aug 22, 2026 · Updated Aug 25, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

net: thunderbolt: Tear down DMA paths before stopping the rings

tbnet_tear_down() stops both rings and frees their frame buffers before
calling tb_xdomain_disable_paths(). tb_ring_stop() zeroes the ring's
descriptor base and tbnet_free_buffers() unmaps and frees the pages the
frames sit in, so by the time __tb_path_deactivate_hop() polls the hop's
'pending' bit, anything still in flight has nowhere to drain to.

The teardown sequence has been in this order since the driver was added.
The setup path has not: commit ff7cd07f3064 ("net: thunderbolt: Enable
DMA paths only after rings are enabled") moved the path enable to the end
of tbnet_connected_work() and documented why:

/* Both logins successful so enable the rings, high-speed DMA
* paths and start the network device queue.
*
* Note we enable the DMA paths last to make sure we have primed
* the Rx ring before any incoming packets are allowed to
* arrive.
*/

Teardown was never updated to match, so the rings and the paths now come
down in the same order they go up instead of in reverse.

On an ASMedia ASM4242 host router the 'pending' bit then never clears:
every teardown burns the full 500 ms timeout and
__tb_path_deactivate_hop() returns -ETIMEDOUT. Raising the timeout to
5 s does not help, so the hop is not slow to drain, it never drains
at all.

The failure is invisible above the thunderbolt core.
__tb_path_deactivate_hops() is void and only calls tb_port_warn();
tb_path_deactivate(), tb_tunnel_deactivate() and
__tb_disconnect_xdomain_paths() are void as well, and
tb_disconnect_xdomain_paths() ends in an unconditional "return 0". So
tb_xdomain_disable_paths() reports success and the netdev_warn() below
it never fires. Repeated teardowns eventually take the XDomain control
channel down, after which the peer node is gone and only a power cycle
brings the controller back.

Deactivating the paths first fixes it. Measured with kretprobes on a
stock v6.17 tree with no other patches applied, on a link that was up
and had just carried traffic:

before: __tb_path_deactivate_hop() returns 0 for the first hop, then
-ETIMEDOUT for the second 500335 us later
after: 0 for both, 525 us apart

Alternating the two orderings ABBA over three load levels, four
teardowns per arm: every teardown failed before the change (21 of 21
that ran), none failed after (0 of 24). The before arms ran short
because the link died partway through. The same split shows up when
the interface is enslaved to a bond instead of just brought down, which
is how I ran into this in the first place. Throughput and latency after
the change are unchanged.

Hosts whose routers drain the hop despite the stale descriptor base see
no functional difference, since the paths end up deactivated either way.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.15 5.15.216

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.1.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.105-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.187-1 —
Debian 12 linux-6.12 6.12.107-1~deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1036.41 —
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1101.103 —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux 7.0.0-42.42 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-aws 7.0.0-1016.17 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure 7.0.0-1020.21 USN-9019-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 7.0.0-1019.19 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gcp 7.0.0-1016.18 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gke 7.0.0-1010.11 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 7.0.0-1017.17 USN-8960-1, USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-oracle 7.0.0-1015.16 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-raspi 7.0.0-1023.23 USN-9021-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-realtime 7.0.0-43.43.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-riscv 7.0.0-42.42.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-149.149 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1069.74 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-7.0 7.0.0-1017.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1073.82 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1071.78 USN-9039-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-7.0 7.0.0-1019.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1073.81 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-7.0 7.0.0-1017.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1068.77 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1053.57 USN-9023-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-7.0 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1069.70 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-149.149.1 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1067.70 USN-9024-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1067.70.1 USN-9040-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1036.39 USN-8886-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1067.71 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle-7.0 7.0.0-1016.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1068.72 USN-9025-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +31 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-7.0 7.0.0-42.42.1~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-vmware 6.8.0-1010.10 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux 5.15.0-198.208 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1117.124 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1069.74~22.04.1 USN-9024-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1123.132 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1073.82~22.04.1 USN-9026-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1122.131 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1071.78~22.04.1 USN-9026-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1118.128 USN-8877-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1073.81~22.04.1 USN-9024-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1113.119 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1100.108 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-149.149~22.04.1 USN-9066-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1111.115 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1069.70~22.04.1 USN-9024-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1112.118 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1109.114 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-195.205 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-149.149.1~22.04.1 USN-9024-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1112.113 USN-8875-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1070.72 USN-8963-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1059.59 USN-8963-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1114.120 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1067.71~22.04.1 USN-9025-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1113.116 USN-9029-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +33 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1080.84 USN-8875-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2056.58 USN-9025-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1064.65 USN-9023-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1109.111 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1116.125 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1064.65~22.04.1 USN-9024-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1069.74+fips1 USN-9023-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1073.82+fips1 USN-9022-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1073.81+fips1 USN-9023-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1117.124+fips1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1123.132+fips1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-198.208+fips1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1118.128+fips1 USN-8877-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1117.124~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1123.132~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-5.15 5.15.0-1122.131~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1118.128~20.04.1 USN-8878-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-198.208~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 +1 5.15.0-1111.115~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1112.118~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-195.205~20.04.1 USN-8875-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1070.72~20.04.1 USN-8963-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1114.120~20.04.1 USN-8879-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp +4 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1.150700.17.51.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.333.2 SUSE-SU-2026:4687-1
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.41.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24662-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.41.1.160000.2.32 SUSE-SU-2026:24662-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.41.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24662-1, SUSE-SU-2026:24651-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.41.1.160000.2.32 SUSE-SU-2026:24662-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.41.1.160000.2.32 SUSE-SU-2026:24643-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.41.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24648-1, SUSE-SU-2026:24643-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.41 SUSE-SU-2026:24619-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-159998.55.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24619-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42 SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-159998.55.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_24 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.333.2 SUSE-SU-2026:4687-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_88 1-8.3.3 SUSE-SU-2026:4687-1

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-206.104.3.3.el10uek ELSA-2026-500374, ELSA-2026-500248

Advisories 32

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