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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning The failover txq is inited as 16 queues. when a packet is transmitted from the failover device firstly, the failover device will select the queue which is returned from the primary device if the primary device is UP and running. If the primary device txq is bigger than the default 16, it can lead to the following warning: eth0 selects TX queue 18, but real number of TX queues is 16 The warning backtrace is: [ 32.146376] CPU: 18 PID: 9134 Comm: chronyd Tainted: G E 6.2.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64 #1 [ 32.147175] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.10.2-3.el7_4.1 04/01/2014 [ 32.147730] Call Trace: [ 32.147971] <TASK> [ 32.148183] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x70 [ 32.148514] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 32.148820] netdev_core_pick_tx+0xb1/0xe0 [ 32.149180] __dev_queue_xmit+0x529/0xcf0 [ 32.149533] ? __check_object_size.part.0+0x21c/0x2c0 [ 32.149967] ip_finish_output2+0x278/0x560 [ 32.150327] __ip_finish_output+0x1fe/0x2f0 [ 32.150690] ip_finish_output+0x2a/0xd0 [ 32.151032] ip_output+0x7a/0x110 [ 32.151337] ? __pfx_ip_finish_output+0x10/0x10 [ 32.151733] ip_local_out+0x5e/0x70 [ 32.152054] ip_send_skb+0x19/0x50 [ 32.152366] udp_send_skb.isra.0+0x163/0x3a0 [ 32.152736] udp_sendmsg+0xba8/0xec0 [ 32.153060] ? __folio_memcg_unlock+0x25/0x60 [ 32.153445] ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag+0x10/0x10 [ 32.153854] ? sock_has_perm+0x85/0xa0 [ 32.154190] inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80 [ 32.154508] ? inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80 [ 32.154838] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70 [ 32.155152] ____sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x290 [ 32.155499] ___sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xc0 [ 32.155828] ? _get_random_bytes.part.0+0x79/0x1a0 [ 32.156240] ? ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x5f/0x1e0 [ 32.156649] ? get_random_u16+0x69/0xf0 [ 32.156989] ? __fget_light+0xcf/0x110 [ 32.157326] __sys_sendmmsg+0xc4/0x210 [ 32.157657] ? __sys_connect+0xb7/0xe0 [ 32.157995] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xce/0x140 [ 32.158388] ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.0+0x12c/0x1a0 [ 32.158820] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30 [ 32.159171] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 32.159493] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc Fix that by reducing txq number as the non-existent primary-dev does.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-30 | Published 2025-12-30 | Updated 2025-12-30 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74 (git) before 105cc268328231d5c2bfcbd03f265cec444a3492
affected

cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74 (git) before f032e125149d914e542548c17ebd613851031368
affected

cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74 (git) before 2d5cebf57296f0189a61482035ad420384eedead
affected

cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74 (git) before c942f5cd63b7c2e73fe06744185a34b03267595b
affected

cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74 (git) before 44d250c22209c680f61befbc2ac326da5452da01
affected

cfc80d9a11635404a40199a1c9471c96890f3f74 (git) before e3cbdcb0fbb61045ef3ce0e072927cc41737f787
affected

Default status
affected

4.18
affected

Any version before 4.18
unaffected

5.4.240 (semver)
unaffected

5.10.177 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.106 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.23 (semver)
unaffected

6.2.10 (semver)
unaffected

6.3 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/105cc268328231d5c2bfcbd03f265cec444a3492

git.kernel.org/...c/f032e125149d914e542548c17ebd613851031368

git.kernel.org/...c/2d5cebf57296f0189a61482035ad420384eedead

git.kernel.org/...c/c942f5cd63b7c2e73fe06744185a34b03267595b

git.kernel.org/...c/44d250c22209c680f61befbc2ac326da5452da01

git.kernel.org/...c/e3cbdcb0fbb61045ef3ce0e072927cc41737f787

cve.org (CVE-2023-54236)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-54236)

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