net/mlx5: free mlx5_st_idx_data on final dealloc (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72006
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 11 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: free mlx5_st_idx_data on final dealloc Workloads that repeatedly allocate and release mkeys carrying TPH steering-tag hints (e.g. churning RDMA MRs) leak one struct mlx5_st_idx_data per cycle; kmemleak flags it as unreferenced and the kmalloc slab grows over time. When the last reference to an ST table entry is dropped, mlx5_st_dealloc_index() removed the entry from idx_xa but the backing mlx5_st_idx_data allocation was never freed. Free idx_data after the xa_erase() so the lifetime of the bookkeeping struct matches the lifetime of the ST entry it tracks.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 888a7776f4fb04c19bec70c737c61c2f383c6b1e < 262da8b6ea03d01ee7ed01ad309e4c89941f6b14 ; affected 888a7776f4fb04c19bec70c737c61c2f383c6b1e < 6eb4cf2fa8997f62c11e0006dc010a1fd89c5a75 ; affected 888a7776f4fb04c19bec70c737c61c2f383c6b1e < df6134b527a88b3e65ba6ae5073664af091d5fd2
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.17 ; unaffected 0 < 6.17 ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.5 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD