Upstream information

CVE-2026-80986 at MITRE

Description

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

net/smc: bound the peer rkey counts in SMC-Rv2 LLC messages

On a link whose device has max_recv_sge == 1 there is no shared v2 receive
buffer, and smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys() takes the v2 extension from 44
bytes past the start of the queue entry's inline message:

ext = (struct smc_llc_msg_add_link_v2_ext *)(llc_msg + SMC_WR_TX_SIZE);

The entry is a 72-byte allocation and the extension starts at offset 68, so
ext->num_rkeys at offset 94 is already past it. This happens on every
SMC-Rv2 link addition, whatever the peer sends:

[ 2.490065] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350
[ 2.490431] Read of size 2 at addr ffff8880056406de by task smctest/106
[ 2.490709]
[ 2.490792] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 106 Comm: smctest Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-p1-g77a5d9d9c99f #32 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 2.490795] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 2.490798] Call Trace:
[ 2.490803] <TASK>
[ 2.490805] dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
[ 2.490810] print_report+0xd0/0x630
[ 2.490828] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490832] ? smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350
[ 2.490834] kasan_report+0xce/0x100
[ 2.490836] ? smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350
[ 2.490837] smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350
[ 2.490839] ? smcr_buf_map_lgr+0x1bf/0x2b0
[ 2.490844] smc_llc_cli_add_link+0xca7/0x1e80
[ 2.490848] ? smc_llc_wait+0x355/0x810
[ 2.490850] ? __pfx_smc_llc_wait+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490851] ? __pfx_smc_llc_cli_add_link+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490853] ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490863] __smc_connect+0x3f5c/0x4980
[ 2.490873] ? __pfx_kernel_connect+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490888] ? __pfx___smc_connect+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490891] ? release_sock+0x148/0x1d0
[ 2.490894] smc_connect+0x42c/0x580
[ 2.490896] __sys_connect+0xfc/0x130
[ 2.490898] ? __pfx___sys_connect+0x10/0x10
[ 2.490900] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1a1/0x430
[ 2.490908] __x64_sys_connect+0x6d/0xb0
[ 2.490909] ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x56/0xe0
[ 2.490917] do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
[ 2.490921] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[ 2.490924] RIP: 0033:0x421bb4
[ 2.490927] Code: ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d ad 34 09 00 00 74 13 b8 2a 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 4c c3 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 10 89 55
[ 2.490929] RSP: 002b:00007ffd473b01a8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
[ 2.490935] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000421bb4
[ 2.490936] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00007ffd473b01d0 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 2.490937] RBP: 0000000000003930 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 2.490938] R10: 00007ffd473b0f98 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000006
[ 2.490939] R13: 00007ffd473b0f87 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00007ffd473b0f90
[ 2.490940] </TASK>
[ 2.490941]
[ 2.499545] Allocated by task 44:
[ 2.499693] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
[ 2.499860] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 2.500026] __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
[ 2.500190] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x158/0x370
[ 2.500393] smc_llc_enqueue+0x72/0x560
[ 2.500559] smc_wr_rx_tasklet_fn+0x474/0xa80
[ 2.500747] tasklet_action_common+0x20f/0x8a0
[ 2.500945] handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x590
[ 2.501115] do_softirq+0x3b/0x60
[ 2.501266] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x61/0x70
[ 2.501446] __alloc_skb+0x732/0x890
[ 2.501604] rxe_init_packet+0x16b/0x4f0
[ 2.501783] prepare_ack_packet+0xb8/0x830
[ 2.501962] rxe_receiver+0x495/0x96e0
[ 2.502125] do_work+0x144/0x470
[ 2.502269] process_one_work+0x633/0x1030
[ 2.502450] worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10
[ 2.50261
---truncated---

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (NVD) Linux Kernel CNA
Base Score 9.8 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1

Note from the SUSE Security Team on the kernel-default package

SUSE will no longer fix all CVEs in the Linux Kernel anymore, but declare some bug classes as won't fix. Please refer to TID 21496 for more details.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE kernel-default Analysis
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS kernel-default Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 kernel-default Analysis
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 kernel-default Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 kernel-source Analysis
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 kernel-source Analysis
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 kernel-default Analysis
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
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SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 kernel-source Analysis
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CVE page created: Sat Sep 12 12:44:33 2026
CVE page last modified: Sun Sep 13 13:41:17 2026