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CVE-2026-90065

net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure IPPROTO_SMC sockets create an internal TCP sock ("clcsock") from the proto->init hook. When socket creation fails after proto->init has run - e.g. a cgroup BPF program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE denies the socket - sk_common_release() only invokes sk_prot->destroy if it is set, but neither smc_inet_prot nor smc_inet6_prot defines it, and smc_destruct() returns early unless sk_state is SMC_CLOSED. As a result, every failing socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC) call leaks one tcp_sock, so an unprivileged task able to attach a deny-all BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE program to its own cgroup can grow kernel memory unboundedly. Add a .destroy hook to both protos that releases the clcsock via smc_clcsock_release(). smc_sk_init() hashes the sock into the smc hashinfo before the clcsock is created, and smc_diag dumps walk that hash dereferencing smc->clcsock without taking clcsock_release_lock, while sk_common_release() calls .destroy before .unhash. Unhash the sock before releasing the clcsock, as __smc_release() does, so a concurrent dump cannot observe the release; the second unhash in sk_common_release() is a no-op.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 before 2f4ece7fed6d915ec64b7735962c0d84d6261032; affected d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 before 84180988a455fd8e147c6b35c8df65d8b8cc76c2; affected d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 before 94a913cd521c0f0408820bcdbd80dadf076d97b5; affected d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 before cec261b0b4c5c0b044165303198d10ffcdf3414c
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.11; unaffected 0 before 6.11; unaffected 6.12.110 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.52 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.6 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

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