CVE-2026-74719 PUBLISHED

net/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

net/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()

The SMC_LLC_CONFIRM_LINK / SMC_LLC_ADD_LINK_CONT branch in smc_llc_event_handler() stores an incoming qentry into the local LLC flow without first checking whether a qentry is already pending. If a malicious or buggy peer sends a second CONFIRM_LINK or ADD_LINK_CONT request while a flow is active and flow->qentry is already set, smc_llc_flow_qentry_set() overwrites the pointer without freeing the previous allocation, leaking one kmalloc-96 object per spurious message.

The sibling SMC_LLC_DELETE_LINK branch already has the correct !flow->qentry guard. Apply the same guard to the CONFIRM_LINK/ADD_LINK_CONT branch so that a duplicate message when qentry is already occupied falls through to break and is freed by the kfree(qentry) at the out: label, rather than silently leaking the existing allocation.

The response direction (smc_llc_rx_response()) is unaffected: it already guards with flow->qentry at the equivalent site and drops duplicate responses correctly.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to e384f3cba6ea709f5b2272b1770db4ce14047f78 (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to a1e980d7a9e7ee6faf4f5fd7b450413b969af26d (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to e0eb87677c76b157cdf8eb7c1f19e56227165a33 (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to 06734dfeaeba886aab1bf147249195b888ac3e4d (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to c23c409228629107203d3c3e95fff1473173f1a6 (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to 10cb31b2b74cb664c6c95cf72364d7d5c483ab82 (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to bfc336a9fbbf09805f3dfe25c195a4db90af2846 (excl.)
  • affected from 0fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd44 to 976245094925bab9bc39366b2e9ab44ffcde61d0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.265 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.216 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.183 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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