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CVE-2026-98217

IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure register_pkey_tree() ignores errors from register_one_pkey_tree() and continues registering the remaining slaves. The per-slave error path has already released the pkey parent kobjects, but their pointers remain stored in the device. A later device cleanup therefore passes the stale pointers to kobject_put(), causing a use-after-free. Clear the parent pointers after releasing a failed slave tree and skip unregistered trees during device cleanup. This preserves the existing best-effort registration behavior while preventing a second cleanup of the failed tree.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before 791471421d848ce13e84f4b21c9e19973d471c4e; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before 734f066933484f6c7cedea0312763249beed5845; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before a07bee32127d7c4cd3b1bb9a088e21d0c93634c9; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before cf20d7476754c00eec04ae23d3e929de33ce0345; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before 0c3482e965b18bc242e54e899d1c4d391ca8e5e3; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before ffb80872617b5f9b3dd1536ec2909029fa66f228; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before ced1186fea7c77e16681c7ef4802897885989c3b; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a before 1af874e9f4ce22ccf8b10ab5462f32c70d3be21a
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.7; unaffected 0 before 3.7; unaffected 5.10.271 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.222 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.189 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.112 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.54 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.8 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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