CVE-2026-68417 (GCVE-0-2026-68417)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-10 12:04
Modified
2026-08-19 16:35
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/siw: publish QP after initialization
siw_create_qp() currently calls siw_qp_add() before the queues, CQ
pointers, state, completion, and device list entry are ready. A QPN
lookup can therefore reach a QP that is still being constructed.
Move siw_qp_add() to the end of siw_create_qp(), after QP
initialization and before adding the QP to the siw device list.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b Version: f29dd55b0236f7a26a4b9dd69186e3c04266797b |
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Nomenclature
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