CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74386
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmet-tcp: fix page fragment cache leak in error path
In nvmet_tcp_alloc_queue(), when a connection is closed during the
allocation process (e.g., nvmet_tcp_set_queue_sock() returns -ENOTCONN),
the error handling jumps to out_destroy_sq and then to out_ida_remove
without draining the page fragment cache.
Although nvmet_tcp_free_cmd() is called in some error paths to release
individual page fragments, the underlying page cache reference held by
queue->pf_cache is never released. The first allocation using pf_cache
is the call to nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmd() for queue->connect, which happens
after ida_alloc() returns successfully. This results in a page leak each
time a connection fails during allocation, which could lead to memory
exhaustion over time if connections are repeatedly opened and closed.
Fix this by calling page_frag_cache_drain() before freeing the queue
structure in the out_ida_remove label.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dae393956093c807212918fd91a8fc70df15338 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fbe83a374f09561a0f0c1f4aa021501ffd681eb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a43a9abc1ebf663f0aa56a729106f68dd9c77da6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba3209704b3cd46961e4e081af5c52a780785648 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc11e3f0daaadb6e600a86e54b089d4662d0a464 git.kernel.org