CVE-2026-74719

net/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 22, 2026
Updated
Aug 22, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()

The SMC_LLC_CONFIRM_LINK / SMC_LLC_ADD_LINK_CONT branch in smc_llc_event_handler() stores an incoming qentry into the local LLC flow without first checking whether a qentry is already pending. If a malicious or buggy peer sends a second CONFIRM_LINK or ADD_LINK_CONT request while a flow is active and flow->qentry is already set, smc_llc_flow_qentry_set() overwrites the pointer without freeing the previous allocation, leaking one kmalloc-96 object per spurious message.

The sibling SMC_LLC_DELETE_LINK branch already has the correct !flow->qentry guard. Apply the same guard to the CONFIRM_LINK/ADD_LINK_CONT branch so that a duplicate message when qentry is already occupied falls through to break and is freed by the kfree(qentry) at the out: label, rather than silently leaking the existing allocation.

The response direction (smc_llc_rx_response()) is unaffected: it already guards with flow->qentry at the equivalent site and drops duplicate responses correctly.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before e384f3cba6ea709f5b2272b1770db4ce14047f78Affected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before a1e980d7a9e7ee6faf4f5fd7b450413b969af26dAffected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before e0eb87677c76b157cdf8eb7c1f19e56227165a33Affected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before 06734dfeaeba886aab1bf147249195b888ac3e4dAffected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before c23c409228629107203d3c3e95fff1473173f1a6Affected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before 10cb31b2b74cb664c6c95cf72364d7d5c483ab82Affected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before bfc336a9fbbf09805f3dfe25c195a4db90af2846Affected
  • 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to before 976245094925bab9bc39366b2e9ab44ffcde61d0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.265 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.216 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.183 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.152 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.104 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.45 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.9 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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