CVE-2026-23261 (GCVE-0-2026-23261)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-18 17:41 – Updated: 2026-03-19 16:01
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Title
nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails nvme_fabrics creates an NVMe/FC controller in following path: nvmf_dev_write() -> nvmf_create_ctrl() -> nvme_fc_create_ctrl() -> nvme_fc_init_ctrl() nvme_fc_init_ctrl() allocates the admin blk-mq resources right after nvme_add_ctrl() succeeds. If any of the subsequent steps fail (changing the controller state, scheduling connect work, etc.), we jump to the fail_ctrl path, which tears down the controller references but never frees the admin queue/tag set. The leaked blk-mq allocations match the kmemleak report seen during blktests nvme/fc. Check ctrl->ctrl.admin_tagset in the fail_ctrl path and call nvme_remove_admin_tag_set() when it is set so that all admin queue allocations are reclaimed whenever controller setup aborts.
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Linux Linux Affected: 5fe335a80548e2eda5d51fab801108b323600e95 , < 7c54d3f5ebbc5982daaa004260242dc07ac943ea (git)
Affected: 17c3a66d7ea2d303f783796d62f99e2e23b68c90 , < fa301aef50e3f3b5be6ee53457608beae5aa7a01 (git)
Affected: ea3442efabd0aa3930c5bab73c3901ef38ef6ac3 , < e810b290922c535feb34bc90ab549446fe94d2a3 (git)
Affected: ea3442efabd0aa3930c5bab73c3901ef38ef6ac3 , < d1877cc7270302081a315a81a0ee8331f19f95c8 (git)
Affected: 0d1840b2dd8fe073c020c39bf8e8e89488070801 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.124 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.70 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.10 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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