CVE-2026-72467

Summary

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

xprtrdma: Check frwr_wp_create() during connect

frwr_wp_create() creates the singleton Memory Region used to encode padding for Write chunks whose payload length is not XDR-aligned. Its failure paths return a negative errno and leave ep->re_write_pad_mr set to NULL.

rpcrdma_xprt_connect() currently ignores that return value. If frwr_wp_create() fails after the rest of the connection setup succeeds, xprt_rdma_connect_worker() treats the connection attempt as successful and sets XPRT_CONNECTED. A later NFS/RDMA read with a non-4-byte-aligned receive page length reaches rpcrdma_encode_write_list(), passes the NULL write-pad MR to encode_rdma_segment(), and dereferences it.

This is locally triggerable on an NFS/RDMA client after a connect or reconnect hits a local MR allocation, DMA-map, MR-map, or post-send failure; a remote peer alone cannot force the local MR setup failure.

Check the return value and fail the connect as -ENOTCONN, matching the adjacent setup failures. This keeps XPRT_CONNECTED clear and lets the normal reconnect path retry.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux21037b8c2258ec40de3b31be9ced43ceb3b784f7 < 3b252fe1778b2cdd68283146455929801bc2abd7affected
LinuxLinux21037b8c2258ec40de3b31be9ced43ceb3b784f7 < dd798b76a3481e392820c3ae86ed4592858c6b0faffected
LinuxLinux21037b8c2258ec40de3b31be9ced43ceb3b784f7 < 6b7be4f3feae322f1c2c40a3bdc99db93574a49eaffected
LinuxLinux21037b8c2258ec40de3b31be9ced43ceb3b784f7 < 7471e66373a4444a57ef2192f8c4081202c54f45affected
LinuxLinux21037b8c2258ec40de3b31be9ced43ceb3b784f7 < ef3b79edf14b6bfb0d21a26ccb0463f9cf82c6a9affected
LinuxLinux21037b8c2258ec40de3b31be9ced43ceb3b784f7 < 0f13fc7c7d2e0427517e63c739277a4cd338b0c5affected
LinuxLinux5.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.178 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.145 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.97 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.40 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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