CVE-2026-90172

smb: smbdirect: destroy QP before mem pools on accept failure

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:06 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: smbdirect: destroy QP before mem pools on accept failure On the rdma_accept_failed error path of smbdirect_accept_connect_request(), the receive io posted just above is owned by the QP (recv_io is set to NULL after a successful post). The error path fell through to smbdirect_connection_destroy_mem_pools() before smbdirect_connection_destroy_qp(), so the mem pools and the recv_io slab cache were destroyed while that recv_io was still outstanding on the QP. The drain in smbdirect_connection_destroy_qp() (ib_drain_qp()) is what runs the recv completion that returns the recv_io to the free list, so destroying the pools first leaves the object outstanding at kmem_cache_destroy() time ("Slab cache still has objects") and later frees it into an already-destroyed mempool (mempool_free_bulk NULL-pointer dereference). Give rdma_accept_failed its own teardown that drains the QP first, then destroys the mem pools, and returns. The remaining labels (post_recv_io_failed onward) run before the recv_io was ever posted, so they keep the mem-pools-then-qp order. The outstanding recv_io at kmem_cache_destroy() time: [ 3487.344647] ============================================================================= [ 3487.349942] BUG smbdirect_recv_io_cache_ffff88811ba99000 (Not tainted): Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown() [ 3487.356078] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 3487.356078] [ 3487.356738] Object 0xffff8881511c3440 @offset=13376 [ 3487.358464] Allocated in mempool_alloc_noprof+0x18c/0x290 age=1194 cpu=6 pid=22254 [ 3487.361197] mempool_alloc_noprof+0x18c/0x290 [ 3487.361542] smbdirect_connection_create_mem_pools+0x405/0x780 [ 3487.361972] smbdirect_accept_connect_request+0x5a8/0x1b80 [ 3487.362359] smbdirect_listen_rdma_event_handler+0x1579/0x1b90 [ 3487.362779] cma_cm_event_handler+0x9c/0x230 [ 3487.363096] cma_ib_req_handler+0x2682/0x45d0 [ 3487.363414] cm_process_work+0x56/0x3d0 [ 3487.363676] cm_work_handler+0x8a0e/0xd000 [ 3487.367496] process_scheduled_works+0xa07/0x13a0 [ 3487.367859] worker_thread+0x7c9/0xc80 [ 3487.368148] kthread+0x341/0x430 [ 3487.368407] ret_from_fork+0x3a8/0x7a0 [ 3487.368704] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 3487.370307] Slab 0xffffea0005447000 objects=19 used=1 fp=0xffff8881511c0040 flags=0x100000000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=2) [ 3487.372840] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 3487.373195] WARNING: mm/slub.c:1244 at __slab_err+0x1a/0x30, CPU#6: kworker/6:84/22254 [ 3487.373759] Modules linked in: [ 3487.373993] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 22254 Comm: kworker/6:84 Tainted: G B 7.1.0-next-20260623+ #88 PREEMPT(lazy) [ 3487.374778] Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE [ 3487.377830] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 3487.378515] Workqueue: ib_cm cm_work_handler [ 3487.378820] RIP: 0010:__slab_err+0x1a/0x30 [ 3487.379129] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 36 00 00 00 bf 05 00 00 00 be 01 00 00 00 e8 f7 75 45 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 c3 cc cc cc cc cc 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3487.383255] RSP: 0018:ffff888220fc7050 EFLAGS: 00010093 [ 3487.383643] RAX: ffffffff8168e60a RBX: ffff88810955e640 RCX: ffff88821c381d80 [ 3487.384158] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff870fa080 [ 3487.384662] RBP: ffff888220fc7068 R08: ffffffff870fa087 R09: 1ffffffff0e1f410 [ 3487.385192] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff0e1f411 R12: ffffea0005447210 [ 3487.385674] R13: ffffea0005447000 R14: ffff888220fc7068 R15: ffff88812a8ab300 [ 3487.388932] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888427e76000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 3487.389529] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 3487.389934] CR2: 00007ffcf2d84fd8 CR3: 0000000111d64006 CR4: 0000000000f72ef0 [ 3487.390440] PKRU: 55555554 [ 3487.390641] Call Trace: [ 3487.390826] <TASK> [ 3 ---truncated---

Affected

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

7.1eb3ed1e9048cf7b2a38112f48e0f1b772bb7860d
Vendor states this is fixed in 383a9480f5f40bc46454cce27ccfad532cedad9c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 959813a3752b459ed77b0b3eaf30b9f4c6204260 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
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