---
id: CVE-2026-90172
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  smb: smbdirect: destroy QP before mem pools on accept failure

  On the rdma_accept_failed error path of
  smbdirect_accept_connect_request(), the receive io posted just ab…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  smb: smbdirect: destroy QP before mem pools on accept failure

  On the rdma_accept_failed error path of
  smbdirect_accept_connect_request(), the receive io posted just ab…
severity: high
cvss: 7.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= eb3ed1e9048cf7b2a38112f48e0f1b772bb7860d <
    959813a3752b459ed77b0b3eaf30b9f4c6204260
  - >-
    Linux >= eb3ed1e9048cf7b2a38112f48e0f1b772bb7860d <
    383a9480f5f40bc46454cce27ccfad532cedad9c
  - Linux 7.1
published: '2026-09-17'
updated: '2026-09-18'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-18T18:17:45.017'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90172'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/383a9480f5f40bc46454cce27ccfad532cedad9c'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/959813a3752b459ed77b0b3eaf30b9f4c6204260'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00468
epssPercentile: 0.39681
ingestedAt: '2026-09-17T16:21:47.869Z'
---

## Overview

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

smb: smbdirect: destroy QP before mem pools on accept failure

On the rdma_accept_failed error path of
smbdirect_accept_connect_request(), the receive io posted just above is
owned by the QP (recv_io is set to NULL after a successful post).  The
error path fell through to smbdirect_connection_destroy_mem_pools()
before smbdirect_connection_destroy_qp(), so the mem pools and the
recv_io slab cache were destroyed while that recv_io was still
outstanding on the QP.

The drain in smbdirect_connection_destroy_qp() (ib_drain_qp()) is what
runs the recv completion that returns the recv_io to the free list, so
destroying the pools first leaves the object outstanding at
kmem_cache_destroy() time ("Slab cache still has objects") and later
frees it into an already-destroyed mempool (mempool_free_bulk
NULL-pointer dereference).

Give rdma_accept_failed its own teardown that drains the QP first, then
destroys the mem pools, and returns.  The remaining labels
(post_recv_io_failed onward) run before the recv_io was ever posted, so
they keep the mem-pools-then-qp order.

The outstanding recv_io at kmem_cache_destroy() time:

[ 3487.344647] =============================================================================
[ 3487.349942] BUG smbdirect_recv_io_cache_ffff88811ba99000 (Not tainted): Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown()
[ 3487.356078] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3487.356078]
[ 3487.356738] Object 0xffff8881511c3440 @offset=13376
[ 3487.358464] Allocated in mempool_alloc_noprof+0x18c/0x290 age=1194 cpu=6 pid=22254
[ 3487.361197]  mempool_alloc_noprof+0x18c/0x290
[ 3487.361542]  smbdirect_connection_create_mem_pools+0x405/0x780
[ 3487.361972]  smbdirect_accept_connect_request+0x5a8/0x1b80
[ 3487.362359]  smbdirect_listen_rdma_event_handler+0x1579/0x1b90
[ 3487.362779]  cma_cm_event_handler+0x9c/0x230
[ 3487.363096]  cma_ib_req_handler+0x2682/0x45d0
[ 3487.363414]  cm_process_work+0x56/0x3d0
[ 3487.363676]  cm_work_handler+0x8a0e/0xd000
[ 3487.367496]  process_scheduled_works+0xa07/0x13a0
[ 3487.367859]  worker_thread+0x7c9/0xc80
[ 3487.368148]  kthread+0x341/0x430
[ 3487.368407]  ret_from_fork+0x3a8/0x7a0
[ 3487.368704]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 3487.370307] Slab 0xffffea0005447000 objects=19 used=1 fp=0xffff8881511c0040 flags=0x100000000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=2)
[ 3487.372840] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3487.373195] WARNING: mm/slub.c:1244 at __slab_err+0x1a/0x30, CPU#6: kworker/6:84/22254
[ 3487.373759] Modules linked in:
[ 3487.373993] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 22254 Comm: kworker/6:84 Tainted: G    B               7.1.0-next-20260623+ #88 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 3487.374778] Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
[ 3487.377830] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
[ 3487.378515] Workqueue: ib_cm cm_work_handler
[ 3487.378820] RIP: 0010:__slab_err+0x1a/0x30
[ 3487.379129] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 36 00 00 00 bf 05 00 00 00 be 01 00 00 00 e8 f7 75 45 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 c3 cc cc cc cc cc 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3487.383255] RSP: 0018:ffff888220fc7050 EFLAGS: 00010093
[ 3487.383643] RAX: ffffffff8168e60a RBX: ffff88810955e640 RCX: ffff88821c381d80
[ 3487.384158] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff870fa080
[ 3487.384662] RBP: ffff888220fc7068 R08: ffffffff870fa087 R09: 1ffffffff0e1f410
[ 3487.385192] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff0e1f411 R12: ffffea0005447210
[ 3487.385674] R13: ffffea0005447000 R14: ffff888220fc7068 R15: ffff88812a8ab300
[ 3487.388932] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888427e76000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 3487.389529] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 3487.389934] CR2: 00007ffcf2d84fd8 CR3: 0000000111d64006 CR4: 0000000000f72ef0
[ 3487.390440] PKRU: 55555554
[ 3487.390641] Call Trace:
[ 3487.390826]  <TASK>
[ 3
---truncated---

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.