CVE-2026-98807 PUBLISHED

net/mlx5: Fix slab-out-of-bounds when handling team device events

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

net/mlx5: Fix slab-out-of-bounds when handling team device events

The mlx5_handle_changeupper_event() and mlx5_handle_changeinfodata_event() functions check for LAG masters (which includes both bonding and team devices) but only call bonding-specific APIs. When processing team device events, calling bond_slave_get_rcu() and bond_is_slave_inactive() on team_port structures causes KASAN to detect an out-of-bounds memory access since team_port is smaller than bond slave.

Fix this by wrapping the bond-specific API calls with a check for bonding devices. This allows the function to still process LAG events for both bonding and teams but only calls bond-specific functions when dealing with actual bonding devices.

For mlx5_handle_changeinfodata_event(), keep the explicit bond check as mlx5 doesn't handle state information for team ports anyway.

Tested with Mellanox ConnectX-5 on Linux 7.2.0-rc6: - Bonding: PASS (no regressions) - Team device: PASS (no KASAN errors)

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 54493a08e21f46446b3b24577c5a6f229d049757 to 16ca0e79f31ea810346a79dda545ba344ede1d47 (excl.)
  • affected from 54493a08e21f46446b3b24577c5a6f229d049757 to 3a6e67ff267af2053a793825c3b7844741fed461 (excl.)
  • affected from 54493a08e21f46446b3b24577c5a6f229d049757 to 8117cbc504cb01980258d8a8c9be8f57cf0aaceb (excl.)
  • affected from 54493a08e21f46446b3b24577c5a6f229d049757 to 04c824940d52871c49866a4ac67b504146f7cf35 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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