Critical · published July 19, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/rtrs: Fix use-after-free in path file creation cleanup
In the error path of rtrs_srv_create_path_files(), the sysfs root folders
may already have been created and srv_path->kobj may already have been
initialized. If a later step fails, the cleanup currently calls
kobject_put(&srv_path->kobj) before
rtrs_srv_destroy_once_sysfs_root_folders(srv_path).
kobject_put() may drop the last reference to srv_path->kobj and invoke the
release callback, rtrs_srv_release(), which frees srv_path. The following
call to rtrs_srv_destroy_once_sysfs_root_folders(srv_path) then
dereferences srv_path internally to access srv_path->srv, resulting in a
use-after-free.
This failure path is reached before rtrs_srv_create_path_files() returns
success, so the successful-path lifetime handling is not involved.
Fix this by destroying the sysfs root folders before calling
kobject_put(&srv_path->kobj), so srv_path is still valid while the helper
accesses it.
This issue was found by a static analysis tool I am developing.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.15.61, < 5.15.209 | 5.15.209 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.17, < 6.1.175 | 6.1.175 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.142 | 6.6.142 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.92 | 6.12.92 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.34 | 6.18.34 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.19, < 7.0.11 | 7.0.11 |
| linux/linux_kernel | all versions | — |
| linux/linux_kernel | all versions | — |
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