Bug 2516918 (CVE-2026-74395) - CVE-2026-74395 kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix devx subscribe-event unwind NULL dereference
Summary: CVE-2026-74395 kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix devx subscribe-event unwind NULL derefe...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74395
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:40 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-20 20:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:40:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/mlx5: Fix devx subscribe-event unwind NULL dereference

MLX5_IB_METHOD_DEVX_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT() links event_sub into sub_list
before initializing the fields used by the shared error path.

If eventfd_ctx_fdget() then fails, the unwind path dereferences
event_sub->ev_file in uverbs_uobject_put() and calls
subscribe_event_xa_dealloc() with an unset xa_key_level1.

subscribe_event_xa_alloc() creates the XA entry exactly once for a given
key_level1, on the first occurrence of that key. The unwind path must
therefore call subscribe_event_xa_dealloc() exactly once for it as well.

Enforce that by adding devx_key_in_sub_list() and calling
subscribe_event_xa_dealloc() only when the last matching pending entry is
being cleaned up.


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