CVE-2026-43173
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly
In ixp4xx_get_ts_info() ixp46x_ptp_find() is called
unconditionally despite this feature only existing on
ixp46x, leading to the following splat from tcpdump:
root@OpenWrt:~# tcpdump -vv -X -i eth0
(...)
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000238 when read
(...)
Call trace:
ptp_clock_index from ixp46x_ptp_find+0x1c/0x38
ixp46x_ptp_find from ixp4xx_get_ts_info+0x4c/0x64
ixp4xx_get_ts_info from __ethtool_get_ts_info+0x90/0x108
__ethtool_get_ts_info from __dev_ethtool+0xa00/0x2648
__dev_ethtool from dev_ethtool+0x160/0x234
dev_ethtool from dev_ioctl+0x2cc/0x460
dev_ioctl from sock_ioctl+0x1ec/0x524
sock_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x51c/0xa94
sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44
(...)
Segmentation fault
Check for ixp46x in ixp46x_ptp_find() before trying to set up
PTP to avoid this.
To avoid altering the returned error code from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set()
which before this patch was -EOPNOTSUPP, we return -EOPNOTSUPP
from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set() if ixp46x_ptp_find() fails no matter
the error code. The helper function ixp46x_ptp_find() helper
returns -ENODEV.