CVE-2026-98014 (GCVE-0-2026-98014)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-25 10:23 – Updated: 2026-09-25 10:23
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Title
net/mlx5: E-Switch, prevent mc_list repopulation during vport disable
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: E-Switch, prevent mc_list repopulation during vport disable In mlx5_esw_vport_disable(), move esw_apply_vport_rx_mode() ahead of esw_vport_change_handle_locked() so vport->allmulti_rule is NULL before the change handler observes it. During FW-fatal recovery the disable runs while dev->state == INTERNAL_ERROR. The promisc query inside esw_update_vport_rx_mode() fails and returns early, leaving vport->allmulti_rule intact, so esw_update_vport_mc_promisc() runs and adds MLX5_ACTION_ADD entries to vport->mc_list whose flow rules are then installed in the FDB by esw_add_mc_addr(). esw_destroy_legacy_table() tears down the FDB with those refs still held, corrupting the sub-tree and leaving dangling flow_rule pointers in vport->mc_list. Two-stage failure on `echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<bdf>/reset`: refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. tree_put_node+0xef/0x110 [mlx5_core] clean_tree+0x44/0xd0 [mlx5_core] (x5) mlx5_fs_core_cleanup+0x57/0x1c0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_unload+0x65/0xd0 [mlx5_core] ... mlx5_health_try_recover BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000003000055 down_write+0x1c/0x60 mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x33/0x1f0 [mlx5_core] esw_del_mc_addr+0x7b/0x170 [mlx5_core] esw_apply_vport_addr_list+0x56/0xf0 [mlx5_core] esw_vport_change_handle_locked+0x28b/0x310 [mlx5_core] mlx5_esw_vport_enable+0x270/0x4a0 [mlx5_core] ... mlx5_load ... mlx5_health_try_recover esw_apply_vport_rx_mode(false, false) clears vport->allmulti_rule via its local state machine even when the FW del fails. With the rule NULL the !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(allmulti_rule) gate in the change handler closes, no rules are installed during disable, and the reload starts with a clean mc_list.
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855 , < 69904608e25e8ba58111aadd9210892cf3876201 (git)
Affected: 922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855 , < 72cfcb79026cffb6490f5044153a841d360b0cfc (git)
Affected: 922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855 , < 668e050429c7ca688cf4e7112f97f0cd269d446b (git)
Affected: 922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855 , < c0c6f4ba8a37688f7b4d4044898d88f0450d44c2 (git)
Affected: 18cead61e437f4c7898acca0a5f3df12f801d97f (git)
Affected: 4df1f2d36bdc9a368650bf14b9097c555e95f71d (git)
Affected: 63546395a0e6ac264f78f65218086ce6014b4494 (git)
Affected: 6f5780536181d1d0d09a11a1bc92f22e143447e2 (git)
Affected: 5.10.177 , < 5.11 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.105 , < 5.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.22 , < 6.2 (semver)
Affected: 6.2.9 , < 6.3 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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