CVE-2026-23454 (GCVE-0-2026-23454)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:15 – Updated: 2026-04-18 08:59
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Title
net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown A potential race condition exists in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() where hwc->caller_ctx is freed before the HWC's Completion Queue (CQ) and Event Queue (EQ) are destroyed. This allows an in-flight CQ interrupt handler to dereference freed memory, leading to a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference in mana_hwc_handle_resp(). mana_smc_teardown_hwc() signals the hardware to stop but does not synchronize against IRQ handlers already executing on other CPUs. The IRQ synchronization only happens in mana_hwc_destroy_cq() via mana_gd_destroy_eq() -> mana_gd_deregister_irq(). Since this runs after kfree(hwc->caller_ctx), a concurrent mana_hwc_rx_event_handler() can dereference freed caller_ctx (and rxq->msg_buf) in mana_hwc_handle_resp(). Fix this by reordering teardown to reverse-of-creation order: destroy the TX/RX work queues and CQ/EQ before freeing hwc->caller_ctx. This ensures all in-flight interrupt handlers complete before the memory they access is freed.
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Linux Linux Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < b88edf12fc3779521ae5f6f1584153b15f7da6df (git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < e23bf444512cb85d76012080a76cd1f9e967448e (git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 249e905571583a434d4ea8d6f92ccc0eef337115 (git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 2b001901f689021acd7bf2dceed74a1bdcaaa1f9 (git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < afdb1533eb9c05432aeb793a7280fa827c502f5c (git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 05d345719d85b927cba74afac4d5322de3aa4256 (git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < fa103fc8f56954a60699a29215cb713448a39e87 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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