Bug 2502526 (CVE-2026-64122) - CVE-2026-64122 kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover
Summary: CVE-2026-64122 kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_tim...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64122
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-07-19 17:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 12:02 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 17:04:23 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover

mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover() accesses sq->netdev after
mlx5e_safe_reopen_channels() has torn down and freed the channel (and
its embedded SQs). Replace the three sq->netdev references with
priv->netdev which is safe because priv outlives channel teardown.

The netdev_err() call already used priv->netdev for this reason; make
the trylock/unlock and health_channel_eq_recover calls consistent.

This fixes the following KASAN splat:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover+0x1dd/0x360 [mlx5_core]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff889860ed0b28 by task kworker/u113:2/5277

  Call Trace:
   mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover+0x1dd/0x360 [mlx5_core]
   devlink_health_reporter_recover+0xa2/0x150
   devlink_health_report+0x254/0x7c0
   mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout+0x297/0x380 [mlx5_core]
   mlx5e_tx_timeout_work+0x109/0x170 [mlx5_core]
   process_one_work+0x677/0xf20
   worker_thread+0x51f/0xd90
   kthread+0x3a5/0x810
   ret_from_fork+0x208/0x400
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30


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