RDMA/mad: Fix receive buffer leak when PKey enforcement fails (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98354
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mad: Fix receive buffer leak when PKey enforcement fails ib_mad_complete_recv() initializes mad_recv_wc->rmpp_list and then runs ib_mad_enforce_security() before linking recv_buf onto that list. On failure it calls ib_free_recv_mad(), which only walks rmpp_list and frees the ib_mad_private of every buffer found there. As the list is still empty at that point, nothing is freed at all. The caller cannot clean up either: ib_mad_recv_done() sets recv to NULL right after ib_mad_complete_recv() returns, assuming the MAD layer took ownership of the buffer. Every MAD that fails the PKey check therefore leaks one ib_mad_private (about 300 bytes per IB port MAD, ~2K for OPA), and a remote node can trigger this repeatedly by sending MADs with a wrong PKey. Link recv_buf onto rmpp_list right after the list is initialized, so the error path has something to free.

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Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 47a2b338fe63200d716d2e24131cdb49f17c77da < 4617c9a856188674dddb0ca66979746d07688579 ; affected 47a2b338fe63200d716d2e24131cdb49f17c77da < 8e2036fb47a5b152d53eadbd35abf311bd34cc7f ; affected 47a2b338fe63200d716d2e24131cdb49f17c77da < bad289e42f512646a988f278f536d21547df73f1 ; affected 47a2b338fe63200d716d2e24131cdb49f17c77da < 752b30e9d339008e5ce7eed412e9446078916129 ; affected 47a2b338fe63200d716d2e24131cdb49f17c77da < 39c4ea72a40503e102ae07e6776005f96ca078a6 ; affected 47a2b338fe63200d716d2e24131cdb49f17c77da < 5091e25ec503f7fc02723ca435226467b68caac7
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.13 ; unaffected 0 < 4.13 ; 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

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