CVE-2026-46176 (GCVE-0-2026-46176)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:36 – Updated: 2026-07-02 12:05
VLAI?
Title
RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init() mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init() allocates two SRQs, s0 and s1. When ib_create_srq() fails for s1, the error branch destroys s0 but falls through and unconditionally assigns the freed s0 and the ERR_PTR s1 to devr->s0 and devr->s1. This leads to several problems: the lock-free fast path checks "if (devr->s1) return 0;" and treats the ERR_PTR as already initialised; users in mlx5_ib_create_qp() dereference the freed SRQ or ERR_PTR via to_msrq(devr->s0)->msrq.srqn; and mlx5_ib_dev_res_cleanup() dereferences the ERR_PTR and double-frees s0 on teardown. Fix by adding the same `goto unlock` in the s1 failure path.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-825 - Expired Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: b6334d2356fc0922ed01457960f74923058a353a , < a13c2ac4d480b734342c6fbf8249fc48afd675f3 (git)
Affected: 5895e70f2e6e8dc67b551ca554d6fcde0a7f0467 , < bc2cf5935b4665172235341163315905197ae91d (git)
Affected: 5895e70f2e6e8dc67b551ca554d6fcde0a7f0467 , < b087913ae88256df66620f7ba0a9776716aeef7e (git)
Affected: 5895e70f2e6e8dc67b551ca554d6fcde0a7f0467 , < 6fd93142dd1d09000c3750af08270f5792523fe9 (git)
Affected: 5895e70f2e6e8dc67b551ca554d6fcde0a7f0467 , < c488df06bd552bb8b6e14fa0cfd5ad986c6e9525 (git)
Affected: 6.6.64 , < 6.6.140 (semver)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.88 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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