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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp() tap_get_user_xdp() rejects a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN with -EINVAL, and returns -ENOMEM when build_skb() fails. Both paths jump to the err label without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for the frame. tap_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer return value and always returns 0, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each rejected frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk. Free the page on both error paths, before the skb is built. This is the tap counterpart of the same leak in tun_xdp_one().

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-13 | Published 2026-06-09 | Updated 2026-06-09 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

0efac27791ee068075d80f07c55a229b1335ce12 (git) before 18a84c35842e19cd3c5534d8cee73d31863f696d
affected

0efac27791ee068075d80f07c55a229b1335ce12 (git) before 3bcf7aec6a9d16438f2cec29f5d7c8d5b8edf9b2
affected

Default status
affected

4.20
affected

Any version before 4.20
unaffected

7.0.12 (semver)
unaffected

7.1-rc6 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/18a84c35842e19cd3c5534d8cee73d31863f696d

git.kernel.org/...c/3bcf7aec6a9d16438f2cec29f5d7c8d5b8edf9b2

cve.org (CVE-2026-46320)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-46320)

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