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CVE-2026-64125

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: keep RBUF EEE/PM disabled Setting RBUF_EEE_EN | RBUF_PM_EN in RBUF_ENERGY_CTRL breaks the RX path on GENET hardware once MAC EEE becomes active. RX traffic stops flowing while the link stays up and the usual descriptor/RX error counters remain quiet. In that state the MAC still accepts frames (rbuf_ovflow_cnt keeps climbing) but RBUF no longer forwards them to DMA, so rx_packets is no longer incremented at the netdev level. On some boards the corruption ends up as a paging fault in skb_release_data via bcmgenet_rx_poll on an LPI exit. Reproduced on Pi 4B (BCM2711 + BCM54213PE) and confirmed by Florian Fainelli on an internal Broadcom 4908-family board with the same crash signature. RBUF_PM_EN is not publicly documented. This shows up more often now that phy_support_eee() enables EEE by default, but it also affects older kernels as soon as TX LPI is turned on via ethtool, so it is not specific to recent changes. Always clear RBUF_EEE_EN | RBUF_PM_EN in bcmgenet_eee_enable_set so the bits stay off across resets. UMAC and TBUF setup is left alone so TX-side EEE keeps working.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64125
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 07:54 UTC
Published
2026-07-19 15:40 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-19 15:40 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 < 2040eb83f6ada148fb32dd98b943a498005d79f2, 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 < f2782ddac82c70df313012da5f71f1f06b5553ca, 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 < b579f3a73da7a7e74213558f4cc3d865c30aaa78, 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 < 289499907399c5a9f2ed82cb34df49112bb8488f …
Linux Linux 3.19, 0 < 3.19, 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* …
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