CVE-2026-74527: octeontx2-af: Block VFs from clobbering special CGX PKIND state

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026081546-CVE-2026-74527-3439@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

octeontx2-af: Block VFs from clobbering special CGX PKIND state

PF and VF NIX LFs that share a CGX LMAC reuse the same hardware PKIND
programming. When HiGig2 or EDSA parsing is enabled, a VF NIX LF alloc must
not reset the LMAC RX PKIND or default TX parse config over the PF setup.

Add cgx_get_pkind() and rvu_cgx_is_pkind_config_permitted() so VFs skip
cgx_set_pkind(), rvu_npc_set_pkind(), and NIX_AF_LFX_TX_PARSE_CFG updates
when the LMAC is using NPC_RX_HIGIG_PKIND or NPC_RX_EDSA_PKIND.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-74527 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.20 with commit 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 and fixed in 7.1.8 with commit d3c6b0f48f126a36955b3fb4154a59d0b3621d97
	Issue introduced in 4.20 with commit 94d942c5fb970ac2166216838b278613decfa9a0 and fixed in 7.2-rc6 with commit 3bd438a58e910db5dc369aa25dfed1fc95f1b596

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-74527
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.h
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.h
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_cgx.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_nix.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3c6b0f48f126a36955b3fb4154a59d0b3621d97
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bd438a58e910db5dc369aa25dfed1fc95f1b596
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