High 7.8Published Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-72344net/mlx5e: TC, skip peer flow cleanup when LAG seq is unavailable

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 09:00 UTC)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: TC, skip peer flow cleanup when LAG seq is unavailable mlx5_lag_get_dev_seq() will return error when the peer isn't in the LAG or when no device is marked as master. Result bad memory access and kernel crash[1]. Hence, skip the peer when lookup fails. Note: In case there are peer flows, they are cleaned before LAG cleared the master mark. [1] RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow+0x3d/0x350 [mlx5_core] Call Trace: <TASK> mlx5e_tc_clean_fdb_peer_flows+0xc1/0x130 [mlx5_core] mlx5_esw_offloads_unpair+0x3a/0x400 [mlx5_core] mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_event+0xee/0x360 [mlx5_core] mlx5_devcom_send_event+0x7a/0x140 [mlx5_core] mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_cleanup+0x2f/0x90 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_tc_esw_cleanup+0x28/0xf0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_rep_tc_cleanup+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_cleanup_uplink_rep_tx+0x36/0x40 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx+0x55/0x60 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_detach_netdev+0x96/0xf0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x5b/0x120 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_netdev_attach_nic_profile+0x1b/0x30 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0xdd/0x110 [mlx5_core] __esw_offloads_unload_rep+0x81/0xb0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_eswitch_unregister_vport_reps+0x1d7/0x220 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_rep_remove+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core] device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0 bus_remove_device+0xe8/0x1b0 device_del+0x159/0x3c0 mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0xbc/0x2d0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_unregister_device+0x54/0x80 [mlx5_core] mlx5_uninit_one+0x73/0x130 [mlx5_core] remove_one+0x78/0xe0 [mlx5_core] pci_device_remove+0x39/0xa0

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Received
Record last updated: Aug 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	971b28accc09436fe6a6d5afd667dcbfb3ed7e03 builds before 5a95aa0198af75047d98fb72950642c89dab770f; 971b28accc09436fe6a6d5afd667dcbfb3ed7e03 builds before 7bed4af0ced82948d660205efecd551ef8bc3912	CNA record

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a95aa0198af75047d98fb72950642c89dab770f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bed4af0ced82948d660205efecd551ef8bc3912

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