CVE-2026-90065

net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure

IPPROTO_SMC sockets create an internal TCP sock ("clcsock") from the proto->init hook. When socket creation fails after proto->init has run - e.g. a cgroup BPF program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE denies the socket - sk_common_release() only invokes sk_prot->destroy if it is set, but neither smc_inet_prot nor smc_inet6_prot defines it, and smc_destruct() returns early unless sk_state is SMC_CLOSED. As a result, every failing socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC) call leaks one tcp_sock, so an unprivileged task able to attach a deny-all BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE program to its own cgroup can grow kernel memory unboundedly.

Add a .destroy hook to both protos that releases the clcsock via smc_clcsock_release(). smc_sk_init() hashes the sock into the smc hashinfo before the clcsock is created, and smc_diag dumps walk that hash dereferencing smc->clcsock without taking clcsock_release_lock, while sk_common_release() calls .destroy before .unhash. Unhash the sock before releasing the clcsock, as __smc_release() does, so a concurrent dump cannot observe the release; the second unhash in sk_common_release() is a no-op.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 to before 2f4ece7fed6d915ec64b7735962c0d84d6261032Affected
  • d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 to before 84180988a455fd8e147c6b35c8df65d8b8cc76c2Affected
  • d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 to before 94a913cd521c0f0408820bcdbd80dadf076d97b5Affected
  • d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 to before cec261b0b4c5c0b044165303198d10ffcdf3414cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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