Description
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.
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/00904a73272b9f3ef3952fe69a833909dccad1ef Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/01e42aabaf7632beb4bf235c7238b96c746d4144 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/548f3956e53a7f7bde912d8129010b8986d5e602 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b74373390113fba798a76b483837029ab010fef Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/92060ab1c5115674cf319175550f85f68405121f Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0e9706fb2859064bb6c677554c4d20c713aa8e0 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae62c5451e67e8b033c1681fd3b85d7e9a9a28f Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 43 · as of 14 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-416
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