In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeontx2-af: fix cn20k mailbox lifetime on repeated rvu_mbox_init()
rvu_mbox_init() is called separately for AF-PF mailboxes during probe
and for AF-VF mailboxes when SR-IOV is enabled. Each call used to
allocate a new ng_rvu object, leaking the first allocation when the
pointer was overwritten on the second call.
Sharing one ng_rvu across both paths exposed several teardown bugs:
the error path freed all cn20k mailbox DMA and kfree()d ng_rvu even
when only the failing init type should be unwound, leaving live AF-PF
mailbox memory in use after an AF-VF init failure. mutex_init() was
also re-run on the AF-VF path while AF-PF mailbox handlers could still
hold rvu->mbox_lock. Probe and SR-IOV failure paths did not release
cn20k mailbox DMA either, since cleanup only happened in rvu_remove().
Allocate ng_rvu once with devm_kzalloc(), initialize mbox_lock in the
same block, unwind only the mailbox memory for the failing init type,
and free cn20k mailbox DMA from the probe and pci_enable_sriov()
error paths.
octeontx2-af: fix cn20k mailbox lifetime on repeated rvu_mbox_init()
rvu_mbox_init() is called separately for AF-PF mailboxes during probe
and for AF-VF mailboxes when SR-IOV is enabled. Each call used to
allocate a new ng_rvu object, leaking the first allocation when the
pointer was overwritten on the second call.
Sharing one ng_rvu across both paths exposed several teardown bugs:
the error path freed all cn20k mailbox DMA and kfree()d ng_rvu even
when only the failing init type should be unwound, leaving live AF-PF
mailbox memory in use after an AF-VF init failure. mutex_init() was
also re-run on the AF-VF path while AF-PF mailbox handlers could still
hold rvu->mbox_lock. Probe and SR-IOV failure paths did not release
cn20k mailbox DMA either, since cleanup only happened in rvu_remove().
Allocate ng_rvu once with devm_kzalloc(), initialize mbox_lock in the
same block, unwind only the mailbox memory for the failing init type,
and free cn20k mailbox DMA from the probe and pci_enable_sriov()
error paths.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: fix cn20k mailbox lifetime on repeated rvu_mbox_init() rvu_mbox_init() is called separately for AF-PF mailboxes during probe and for AF-VF mailboxes when SR-IOV is enabled. Each call used to allocate a new ng_rvu object, leaking the first allocation when the pointer was overwritten on the second call. Sharing one ng_rvu across both paths exposed several teardown bugs: the error path freed all cn20k mailbox DMA and kfree()d ng_rvu even when only the failing init type should be unwound, leaving live AF-PF mailbox memory in use after an AF-VF init failure. mutex_init() was also re-run on the AF-VF path while AF-PF mailbox handlers could still hold rvu->mbox_lock. Probe and SR-IOV failure paths did not release cn20k mailbox DMA either, since cleanup only happened in rvu_remove(). Allocate ng_rvu once with devm_kzalloc(), initialize mbox_lock in the same block, unwind only the mailbox memory for the failing init type, and free cn20k mailbox DMA from the probe and pci_enable_sriov() error paths. | |
| Title | octeontx2-af: fix cn20k mailbox lifetime on repeated rvu_mbox_init() | |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-17T16:05:57.541Z
Reserved: 2026-09-11T19:38:34.785Z
Link: CVE-2026-90079
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-17T17:16:57.210
Modified: 2026-09-17T17:16:57.210
Link: CVE-2026-90079
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