Bug 2468229 (CVE-2026-43469)

Summary: CVE-2026-43469 kernel: xprtrdma: Decrement re_receiving on the early exit paths
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's xprtrdma component. This vulnerability occurs when the `rpcrdma_post_recvs()` function fails to create a work request or exits prematurely, leading to the `re_receiving` counter not being decremented. This improper resource handling can cause the system to hang indefinitely, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for affected systems, particularly under high memory pressure.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-08 15:05:56 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xprtrdma: Decrement re_receiving on the early exit paths

In the event that rpcrdma_post_recvs() fails to create a work request
(due to memory allocation failure, say) or otherwise exits early, we
should decrement ep->re_receiving before returning. Otherwise we will
hang in rpcrdma_xprt_drain() as re_receiving will never reach zero and
the completion will never be triggered.

On a system with high memory pressure, this can appear as the following
hung task:

    INFO: task kworker/u385:17:8393 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
          Tainted: G S          E       6.19.0 #3
    "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
    task:kworker/u385:17 state:D stack:0     pid:8393  tgid:8393  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4248060 flags:0x00080000
    Workqueue: xprtiod xprt_autoclose [sunrpc]
    Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     __schedule+0x48b/0x18b0
     ? ib_post_send_mad+0x247/0xae0 [ib_core]
     schedule+0x27/0xf0
     schedule_timeout+0x104/0x110
     __wait_for_common+0x98/0x180
     ? __pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10
     wait_for_completion+0x24/0x40
     rpcrdma_xprt_disconnect+0x444/0x460 [rpcrdma]
     xprt_rdma_close+0x12/0x40 [rpcrdma]
     xprt_autoclose+0x5f/0x120 [sunrpc]
     process_one_work+0x191/0x3e0
     worker_thread+0x2e3/0x420
     ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
     kthread+0x10d/0x230
     ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
     ret_from_fork+0x273/0x2b0
     ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
     ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30