RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init()
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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
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observed exploitation
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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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30848https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33215https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33685https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34094https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46176https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482594https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fd93142dd1d09000c3750af08270f5792523fe9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a13c2ac4d480b734342c6fbf8249fc48afd675f3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b087913ae88256df66620f7ba0a9776716aeef7ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc2cf5935b4665172235341163315905197ae91dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c488df06bd552bb8b6e14fa0cfd5ad986c6e9525https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-46176.json