CVE-2025-71157

RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()

published January 23, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()

Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add

support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference

using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(),

we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00142 · 3.2th percentile
Published
2026-01-23T14:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JAN 14:25Z
    RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()
    cvelistv5