CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72406
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sungem: fix probe error cleanup
gem_init_one() calls gem_remove_one() when register_netdev() fails.
gem_remove_one() unregisters and frees resources owned by the net_device,
including the DMA block, MMIO mapping, PCI regions, and the net_device
itself. gem_init_one() then falls through to its own cleanup labels and
frees the same resources again.
Keep the register_netdev() error path in gem_init_one(): clear drvdata so
PM/remove paths do not see a half-registered device, remove the NAPI
instance added during probe, and let the existing cleanup labels release
the resources once.
The issue was found by a local static-analysis checker for probe error
paths. The reported path was manually inspected before sending this fix.
Compile-tested with CONFIG_SUNGEM=y. Runtime testing was not performed
because no sungem hardware is available.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/331c99029a1cee1111f82f63d15b3cdebefbd341 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36dea2f639249460d13f6ca66b2a9064187cd34d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63eaf7605d1579cf3f551792e478cfaf5ac37d1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b15a3cc68e2450aa0edd94a74a7bdd45fcc17dd9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc49e8746584564dba47d963d1916cc876fc6f6b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1d04fefb0c2a2de32d9cee22cdc2088be3758d1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3bd60b26814b7c3c57c629abb0857dfc76d214a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb73cdc50b6755e5c3a80a195b2708a39ada0230 git.kernel.org