CVE-2026-98366 PUBLISHED

RDMA/rxe: validate access flags before swapping the MR's PD

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

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

RDMA/rxe: validate access flags before swapping the MR's PD

rxe_rereg_user_mr() reassigns mr->ibmr.pd first and only then validates the IB_MR_REREG_ACCESS argument:

<pre>if (flags & IB_MR_REREG_PD) { rxe_put(old_pd); rxe_get(pd); mr->ibmr.pd = ibpd; } if (flags & IB_MR_REREG_ACCESS) { if (access & ~RXE_ACCESS_SUPPORTED_MR) return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP); mr->access = access; } </pre>

Both flags pass the entry check because RXE_MR_REREG_SUPPORTED is IB_MR_REREG_PD | IB_MR_REREG_ACCESS, so a caller can reach the access check with mr->ibmr.pd already reassigned.

mr->ibmr.pd is owned by the core, which adjusts pd->usecnt only on the success path: ib_uverbs_rereg_mr() jumps to put_new_uobj on a driver error without undoing the reassignment, so mr->pd == new_pd while the usecnts still charge the MR to orig_pd. ib_dereg_mr_user() then decrements new_pd, whose count can reach zero while a memory window still references it; uverbs_free_pd() frees the PD on that count alone and rxe_mw_cleanup() writes to freed memory:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __rxe_put+0x31/0xa0 Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881301dd690 by task rxe_poc/591 __rxe_put+0x31/0xa0 rxe_mw_cleanup+0x42/0x200 __rxe_cleanup+0x115/0x370 rxe_dealloc_mw+0x4c/0x80 Allocated by task 591: ib_uverbs_alloc_pd+0x258/0x540 Freed by task 591: ib_dealloc_pd_user+0x174/0x210 uverbs_free_pd+0x8d/0xc0 ib_uverbs_dealloc_pd+0x18e/0x1d0

Validate the access flags before mutating any state so the callback either applies every requested change or none.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c to 08f12745cb72981aa2cabe214af0c7a42a856f0a (excl.)
  • affected from 544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c to 7230cc456d4bb2221c20c5f1d22b38b8576aa16f (excl.)
  • affected from 544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c to fe602c91a52e161ace4afd5bdb8f33270c554c6f (excl.)
  • affected from 544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c to 4dd7a53f1c5b44693c26dac4b9b5bd5bb9d604c8 (excl.)
  • affected from 544c7f62cf32db2bd358f1e8a40a98bf98fa2a5c to ae36a5b609ae79f4de966328b78d2584be9719a4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.5 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.5 (excl.)
  • 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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