CVE-2026-80979informação

Sumário

de MITRE • 11/09/2026

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

net/smc: unregister the connection before draining the rx tasklet

smc_conn_free() calls smc_ism_unset_conn() only while the link group is still on its device list, and never sets conn->killed. smc_lgr_terminate_sched() unlinks the group immediately and defers killing its connections to a work item, so a connection freed in that window keeps its smcd->conn[] slot with both gates in smcd_handle_irq() open, and the
device can re-arm the receive tasklet after tasklet_kill() has returned. On the DMB-nocopy path the ghost send buffer is freed right after that drain, so the re-armed tasklet dereferences it.

Unregister unconditionally and drain before the detach at both teardown sites, mirroring rmb_desc, which smc_buf_unuse() releases after the drain. Clear conn->sndbuf_desc before freeing it as well, so a reader that samples the pointer cannot get one that is already freed.

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Divulgação

11/09/2026

Moderação

em revisão

EPSS

0.00000

KEV

não

Atividades

muito baixo

Fontes

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