Bug 2541143 (CVE-2026-97939) - CVE-2026-97939 kernel: ipmr: account multicast table and route memory
Summary: CVE-2026-97939 kernel: ipmr: account multicast table and route memory
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-97939
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-25 10:51 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-29 21:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 10:51:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmr: account multicast table and route memory

A netadmin in a user+net namespace can create many IPv4 and IPv6
multicast routing tables with MRT_TABLE and MRT6_TABLE. Each unseen
id allocates an mr_table via the shared mr_table_alloc(), links it
into the per-net list, and leaves it until netns teardown. Those
objects were not charged to memcg, so the host unreclaimable slab
grows with the table count.

Account mr_table allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and mark the
IPv4/IPv6 MFC caches SLAB_ACCOUNT. This matches the established
handling of IP addresses, routes and alternate interface names.

Unresolved MFC entries are still allocated from softIRQ with
GFP_ATOMIC and are not charged. They expire after 10 seconds and are
bounded by the socket receive queue; see commit 0079ad8e8dc3
("ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit").


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