CVE-2021-47558 net: stmmac: Disable Tx queues when reconfiguring the interface

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: Disable Tx queues when reconfiguring the interface The Tx queues were not disabled in situations where the driver needed to stop the interface to apply a new configuration. This could result in a kernel panic when...

CVE-2021-47558

The CVE-2021-47558 issue affects Linux kernel’s net:stmmac driver. The bug occurred because Tx queues were not disabled when stopping an interface to apply new configuration, potentially causing a kernel panic during: (1) reconfiguring queue numbers (ethtool -L), (2) resizing ring buffers (ethtoo...