CVE-2026-98217 PUBLISHED

IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure

register_pkey_tree() ignores errors from register_one_pkey_tree() and continues registering the remaining slaves. The per-slave error path has already released the pkey parent kobjects, but their pointers remain stored in the device. A later device cleanup therefore passes the stale pointers to kobject_put(), causing a use-after-free.

Clear the parent pointers after releasing a failed slave tree and skip unregistered trees during device cleanup. This preserves the existing best-effort registration behavior while preventing a second cleanup of the failed tree.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to 791471421d848ce13e84f4b21c9e19973d471c4e (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to 734f066933484f6c7cedea0312763249beed5845 (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to a07bee32127d7c4cd3b1bb9a088e21d0c93634c9 (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to cf20d7476754c00eec04ae23d3e929de33ce0345 (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to 0c3482e965b18bc242e54e899d1c4d391ca8e5e3 (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to ffb80872617b5f9b3dd1536ec2909029fa66f228 (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to ced1186fea7c77e16681c7ef4802897885989c3b (excl.)
  • affected from c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to 1af874e9f4ce22ccf8b10ab5462f32c70d3be21a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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