{"cve":"CVE-2024-42071","nvd":{"published":"2024-07-29T16:15:06.623","modified":"2026-08-04T11:19:31.393","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nionic: use dev_consume_skb_any outside of napi\n\nIf we're not in a NAPI softirq context, we need to be careful\nabout how we call napi_consume_skb(), specifically we need to\ncall it with budget==0 to signal to it that we're not in a\nsafe context.\n\nThis was found while running some configuration stress testing\nof traffic and a change queue config loop running, and this\ncurious note popped out:\n\n[ 4371.402645] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: ethtool/20545\n[ 4371.402897] caller is napi_skb_cache_put+0x16/0x80\n[ 4371.403120] CPU: 25 PID: 20545 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE      6.10.0-rc3-netnext+ #8\n[ 4371.403302] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 01/23/2021\n[ 4371.403460] Call Trace:\n[ 4371.403613]  <TASK>\n[ 4371.403758]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x70\n[ 4371.403904]  check_preemption_disabled+0xc1/0xe0\n[ 4371.404051]  napi_skb_cache_put+0x16/0x80\n[ 4371.404199]  ionic_tx_clean+0x18a/0x240 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404354]  ionic_tx_cq_service+0xc4/0x200 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404505]  ionic_tx_flush+0x15/0x70 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404653]  ? ionic_lif_qcq_deinit.isra.23+0x5b/0x70 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404805]  ionic_txrx_deinit+0x71/0x190 [ionic]\n[ 4371.404956]  ionic_reconfigure_queues+0x5f5/0xff0 [ionic]\n[ 4371.405111]  ionic_set_ringparam+0x2e8/0x3e0 [ionic]\n[ 4371.405265]  ethnl_set_rings+0x1f1/0x300\n[ 4371.405418]  ethnl_default_set_doit+0xbb/0x160\n[ 4371.405571]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xff/0x130\n\t[...]\n\nI found that ionic_tx_clean() calls napi_consume_skb() which calls\nnapi_skb_cache_put(), but before that last call is the note\n    /* Zero budget indicate non-NAPI context called us, like netpoll */\nand\n    DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_softirq());\n\nThose are pretty big hints that we're doing it wrong.  We can pass a\ncontext hint down through the calls to let ionic_tx_clean() know what\nwe're doing so it can call napi_consume_skb() correctly.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-834"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84b767f9e34fdb143c09e66a2a20722fc2921821","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef7646ed49fff962e97b276f4ab91327a67eeb5a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84b767f9e34fdb143c09e66a2a20722fc2921821","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef7646ed49fff962e97b276f4ab91327a67eeb5a"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:53:51.317825789+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-42071","score":0.00232,"percentile":0.14157,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}