IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98217
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

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.

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European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a < 791471421d848ce13e84f4b21c9e19973d471c4e ; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a < 734f066933484f6c7cedea0312763249beed5845 ; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a < a07bee32127d7c4cd3b1bb9a088e21d0c93634c9 ; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a < cf20d7476754c00eec04ae23d3e929de33ce0345 ; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a < 0c3482e965b18bc242e54e899d1c4d391ca8e5e3 ; affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a < ffb80872617b5f9b3dd1536ec2909029fa66f228
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.7 ; unaffected 0 < 3.7 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

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