Bug 2432360 (CVE-2025-71157)

Summary: CVE-2025-71157 kernel: RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-23 15:02:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()

Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add
support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference
using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(),
we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.