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Go to dashboardThe fbnic network driver in the Linux kernel did not fully drain staged firmware mailbox writes when tearing down the mailbox Rx ring, so the firmware flush could never complete. The sources describe a stall in the write path; they do not describe code execution or data exposure.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Only hosts that run the fbnic Ethernet driver, which is used with Meta fbnic network adapters. Systems with other NICs are not affected by this driver flaw. The sources do not describe the trigger or the effect beyond a stalled firmware flush.
No product ranges from the sources yet.
uname -r and check whether the running kernel includes the fbnic AW_FLUSH_MODE fix (unknown: the sources do not give the fixed version)Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eth: fbnic: Set AW_FLUSH_MODE alongside AW_FLUSH when flushing the mailbox
When tearing down the FW mailbox Rx ring, fbnic_mbx_reset_desc_ring() writes AW_CFG with FLUSH set and everything else, BME included, cleared. Clearing BME halts the device's writes to the host but leaves the staged requests parked in the PUL write pipeline rather than draining them, so on the write path FLUSH alone never terminates the outstanding requests and the flush the firmware waits on never completes.
Add the FLUSH_MODE definition and set both bits so the staged writes drain out of the pipeline on their own. BME stays cleared, so nothing lands on the host; it is restored later in fbnic_mbx_init_desc_ring() when the ring is rebuilt, once the outstanding writes are gone.
The read path is unaffected. AR_CFG has no equivalent mode bit and AR_FLUSH terminates the outstanding reads by itself, so it is left as is.
Both writes remain plain stores rather than read-modify-writes. That is deliberate: the matching write in fbnic_mbx_init_desc_ring() restores BME and the TLP attributes, and clears both flush bits as a side effect.
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