CVE-2026-23454 (GCVE-0-2026-23454)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-03 15:15
Modified
2026-04-18 08:59
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown
A potential race condition exists in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() where
hwc->caller_ctx is freed before the HWC's Completion Queue (CQ) and
Event Queue (EQ) are destroyed. This allows an in-flight CQ interrupt
handler to dereference freed memory, leading to a use-after-free or
NULL pointer dereference in mana_hwc_handle_resp().
mana_smc_teardown_hwc() signals the hardware to stop but does not
synchronize against IRQ handlers already executing on other CPUs. The
IRQ synchronization only happens in mana_hwc_destroy_cq() via
mana_gd_destroy_eq() -> mana_gd_deregister_irq(). Since this runs
after kfree(hwc->caller_ctx), a concurrent mana_hwc_rx_event_handler()
can dereference freed caller_ctx (and rxq->msg_buf) in
mana_hwc_handle_resp().
Fix this by reordering teardown to reverse-of-creation order: destroy
the TX/RX work queues and CQ/EQ before freeing hwc->caller_ctx. This
ensures all in-flight interrupt handlers complete before the memory they
access is freed.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f Version: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f |
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