CVE-2026-74397

IB/mlx5: Fix transport-domain rollback and initialize lb mutex earlier

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:59 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/mlx5: Fix transport-domain rollback and initialize lb mutex earlier mlx5_ib_alloc_transport_domain() allocates a transport domain and then may fail in mlx5_ib_enable_lb(). In that case, the allocated TD is leaked. Fix this by deallocating the TD when mlx5_ib_enable_lb() returns an error. Also return 0 explicitly in the no-loopback-capability success branch, and move dev->lb.mutex initialization to mlx5_ib_stage_init_init().

Affected

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

146d2f1af3245a10b13eef263687e54f4e253d1d4.5
Vendor states this is fixed in 2c3b2667dad69d56774b79db763acb3a1bee0fc0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 37fc3cc0f924fd8d0f0cf87b92672dec75a32e57 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 65e344925fa30abf50c8de8c150b397715fa2066 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e79389115b9d27287ff6230a9750675106ed7668 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f88e12c95fc19f719e06ca1e9eb20fdad68ef61a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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