CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72308
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlxsw: fix refcount leak in mlxsw_sp_port_lag_join()
When mlxsw_sp_port_lag_index_get() fails, mlxsw_sp_port_lag_join()
returns an error without releasing the lag reference obtained by
the earlier mlxsw_sp_lag_get(). All other error paths in the
function jump to the cleanup label that ends with
mlxsw_sp_lag_put(), so this is a single missed release.
Fix the leak by replacing the bare 'return err' with a goto to the
existing error cleanup label, which will drop the reference safely.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cf8a1af42b1f12a30b7abd34fe4fc23b3170e7e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d8b3c3e129973a51ae924bdcf6993a76b828814 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fbeaa8ecd144ad593f9fa1ab4b40a780ad3700b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41c8c1d65b32beacd8d916a22457b4f6e47f45af git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b3350eacd9df0597bfe36a594df7b9def0b3edf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99ff5b0083eae6f774360c4ea6874604e6c9b553 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bf2d6eea26a226f8ebab7baea6f2b018f914560 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cab468c3c03f4bcd7530ce2783a4140da14efb7b git.kernel.org