CVE-2026-93151

nvmet-rdma: fix response resource leak on queue teardown

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

nvmet-rdma: fix response resource leak on queue teardown

When an nvme target with rdma transport is removed while I/Os are in flight, a response can be posted but its send completion is never delivered before the connection is torn down. As a result nvmet_rdma_send_done() and nvmet_rdma_release_rsp() are never called for the response, and this leaks the allocated RDMA read/write context and request SGLs.

These leaks are recreated by running blktests nvme/061 with the rdma transport and the siw driver. Kernel kmemleak feature reports them as follows:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812bc490c0 (size 32): comm "kworker/2:1H", pid 409, jiffies 4307744490 backtrace (crc 89afd339): __kmalloc_noprof+0x5f9/0x890 sgl_alloc_order+0x7b/0x380 nvmet_req_alloc_sgls+0x290/0x4f0 [nvmet] nvmet_rdma_map_sgl_keyed+0x241/0x12e0 [nvmet_rdma] nvmet_rdma_handle_command+0x73e/0xb80 [nvmet_rdma] __ib_process_cq+0x149/0x4c0 [ib_core] ib_cq_poll_work+0x49/0x160 [ib_core] process_one_work+0x8b2/0x1640 worker_thread+0x5fd/0xfe0 kthread+0x367/0x460 ret_from_fork+0x655/0x9d0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

unreferenced object 0xffff88814bd05e80 (size 64): comm "kworker/3:1H", pid 148, jiffies 4295195428 backtrace (crc e35510cb): __kmalloc_noprof+0x5f9/0x890 rdma_rw_ctx_init+0x333/0x1fa0 [ib_core] nvmet_rdma_map_sgl_keyed+0x5c8/0x12e0 [nvmet_rdma] nvmet_rdma_handle_command+0x73e/0xb80 [nvmet_rdma] __ib_process_cq+0x149/0x4c0 [ib_core] ib_cq_poll_work+0x49/0x160 [ib_core] process_one_work+0x8b2/0x1640 worker_thread+0x5fd/0xfe0 kthread+0x367/0x460 ret_from_fork+0x655/0x9d0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

To avoid the memory leaks, reclaim the memory of the in-flight responses when the queue QP is torn down. Call nvmet_rdma_free_rsp_resources() that frees up the RDMA read/write context and the request SGLs of such responses.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before 91cfa74f1f3772e8c3662c064a45d8633e00c78eAffected
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before 156ec10a8be2c33b0c279d8b2f4fe8e16fa89ef7Affected
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before 9584b3c30e4ee8ca315bdc12249cc6c47cf1a482Affected
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before 5cc3b21729d45b5af8f79891f9dedb7e6b6dbd08Affected
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before ca795fc1d8a1a4ab0e6bd1d27c9adb78d4ed1a1cAffected
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before d553a9dc1c45666e76d8d2ac9a4f8ff0cbf53a50Affected
  • 8f000cac6e7a6edca7ab93bafc7ed28b27c1545b to before 0114dd303b373522dea06053aabae34bdd33a7c4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.8Affected
  • before 4.8Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not 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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