CVE-2026-68301 PUBLISHED

net: hsr: fix memory leak on slave unregistration by removing synced VLANs

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

net: hsr: fix memory leak on slave unregistration by removing synced VLANs

When an HSR master device is brought UP, it auto-adds VLAN 0 via vlan_vid0_add(), which propagates VID 0 to its slave devices (slave A and B).

If a slave device is later unregistered while HSR is active (e.g., during netns cleanup or interface destruction), hsr_del_port() is called to detach the slave port from the HSR master. However, hsr_del_port() currently does not delete the VLAN IDs that were synced to the slave device by HSR.

As a result, the slave device retains a refcount on VID 0 (and any other synced VLANs). When the slave device is destroyed, its vlan_info / vlan_vid_info structure remains allocated, leading to a memory leak.

Fix this by calling vlan_vids_del_by_dev(port->dev, master->dev) in hsr_del_port() before unlinking slave A or slave B ports, matching the propagation logic in hsr_ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid() / hsr_ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid() and the cleanup behavior in bonding and team drivers.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 72dbae1f2f2159395089405c6c54632f2613f1be to f72c312af6c7897ab0f8a2b5a63f917a207a4143 (excl.)
  • affected from c707d2c5541d2bb94131968ad5dfeb06427a1dba to 21d48408479a17eb65568a765930adea37e4d804 (excl.)
  • affected from 1a8a63a5305e95519de6f941922dfcd8179f82e5 to b5ded444621b6180df9f3d4e07045fc1fc1e8cd9 (excl.)
  • affected from 1a8a63a5305e95519de6f941922dfcd8179f82e5 to ae995b8002d3af134560a706c0e111a89e26317c (excl.)
  • affected from 1a8a63a5305e95519de6f941922dfcd8179f82e5 to dcf15eaf5641812f1cfc5e96537380132a7da89d (excl.)
  • Version 1100242709d5644856131a9dd25d32672ebe7357 is affected
  • Version a2accc07bdcfb0c7ab2cacdca6a1fe8267816efa is affected
  • affected from 6.6.107 to 6.6.148 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.48 to 6.12.101 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.15.194 to 5.16 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.153 to 6.2 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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