CVE-2026-68418

RDMA/irdma: Prevent user-triggered null deref on QP create

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Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Prevent user-triggered null deref on QP create Previously, the user QP creation path would only attempt to populate iwqp->iwpbl if the user-provided req.user_wqe_bufs field was non-zero. The problem is that iwqp->iwpbl is unconditionally dereferenced later on in irdma_setup_virt_qp. While there was a check for iwqp->iwpbl != NULL, this check would only occur if req.user_wqe_bufs was non-zero. The end result is that a user could send a zero user_wqe_bufs value and trigger a null ptr deref. Fix this by unconditionally calling irdma_get_pbl and bailing if it fails, similar to the CQ and SRQ paths.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.14b48c24c2d710cf34810c555dcef883a3d35a9c08
Vendor states this is fixed in 728211c815f6eef28dd3df2a5b6297483185aa20 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b9b0889071569d43623c260074e159cd8f26adb1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ec675b4cdfd378d8c9dd8c93126c024f2469bd79 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.114 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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