CVE-2026-74397 (GCVE-0-2026-74397)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:59 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:46
VLAI
Title
IB/mlx5: Fix transport-domain rollback and initialize lb mutex earlier
Summary
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().
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 146d2f1af3245a10b13eef263687e54f4e253d1d , < 2c3b2667dad69d56774b79db763acb3a1bee0fc0 (git)
Affected: 146d2f1af3245a10b13eef263687e54f4e253d1d , < 37fc3cc0f924fd8d0f0cf87b92672dec75a32e57 (git)
Affected: 146d2f1af3245a10b13eef263687e54f4e253d1d , < 65e344925fa30abf50c8de8c150b397715fa2066 (git)
Affected: 146d2f1af3245a10b13eef263687e54f4e253d1d , < f88e12c95fc19f719e06ca1e9eb20fdad68ef61a (git)
Affected: 146d2f1af3245a10b13eef263687e54f4e253d1d , < e79389115b9d27287ff6230a9750675106ed7668 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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