CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68301
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-08-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hsr: fix memory leak on slave unregistration by removing synced VLANs
When an HSR master device is brought UP, it auto-adds VLAN 0 via
vlan_vid0_add(), which propagates VID 0 to its slave devices (slave A and B).
If a slave device is later unregistered while HSR is active (e.g., during
netns cleanup or interface destruction), hsr_del_port() is called to
detach the slave port from the HSR master. However, hsr_del_port() currently
does not delete the VLAN IDs that were synced to the slave device by HSR.
As a result, the slave device retains a refcount on VID 0 (and any other
synced VLANs). When the slave device is destroyed, its vlan_info /
vlan_vid_info structure remains allocated, leading to a memory leak.
Fix this by calling vlan_vids_del_by_dev(port->dev, master->dev) in
hsr_del_port() before unlinking slave A or slave B ports, matching the
propagation logic in hsr_ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid() / hsr_ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid()
and the cleanup behavior in bonding and team drivers.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d48408479a17eb65568a765930adea37e4d804 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ff0547676acdeceda445c3fce4071b0a887b70 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae995b8002d3af134560a706c0e111a89e26317c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5ded444621b6180df9f3d4e07045fc1fc1e8cd9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccc822e9e4f09a6c2ca73ad5334570441947f94f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcf15eaf5641812f1cfc5e96537380132a7da89d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f72c312af6c7897ab0f8a2b5a63f917a207a4143 git.kernel.org