CVE-2026-64033
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.
No affected software listed.
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00904a73272b9f3ef3952fe69a833909dccad1ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01e42aabaf7632beb4bf235c7238b96c746d4144
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548f3956e53a7f7bde912d8129010b8986d5e602
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b74373390113fba798a76b483837029ab010fef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92060ab1c5115674cf319175550f85f68405121f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0e9706fb2859064bb6c677554c4d20c713aa8e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae62c5451e67e8b033c1681fd3b85d7e9a9a28f
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