CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97979
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: add missing xa_destroy for sched_node_ids
Commit 16dfa49406bc ("ice: Introduce new parameters in ice_sched_node")
added a sched_node_ids xarray to the port info structure, but never called
xa_destroy on it.
Since xarrays can allocate internal memory, this can result in a memory
leak even if every element in the xarray has been removed.
The xarray is currently embedded in the port_info structure. This appears
to have been done because its use is within functions that take the
port_info as a primary argument.
However, this complicates managing the lifecycle of the field. The
port_info structure is allocated in ice_init_hw() using devm, and it is
not released until the devm cleanup when the driver is unloaded.
The ice_init_hw() function is called in many places, including devlink
reload, and possibly during DDP load after updating the Tx scheduler
layout.
Adding a call of xa_destroy to the ice_deinit_hw() causes Sashiko to raise
multiple concerns due to potential ordering issues and possible ways that
port_info could be a dangling reference.
To handle this, move the sched_node_ids out of port_info and into the hw
structure. All users of the array already have a pointer to hw anyways, and
there is only one sched_node_ids per adapter. While here, remove the overly
verbose comment explaining the nature of the sched_node_ids xarray.
Add the missing xa_destroy to the cleanup path and to ice_deinit_hw(),
ensuring that we properly release the xarray memory.
This was caught by Sashiko during development of unrelated code.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09a7cdf8fffb065a8aa30cfa604ff4a65cbf04c9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44cdd6b7e036303f7fecf841cf23c05a4a4faf2d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53432c4c3e869076350aef319534431af8ba99c1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c075a91fe5762d314e6e182d37d29cf874bd314a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6f38fb12069fb1edf762962b5fcf3f42d643b47 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5463bc124c0d6f922e272336584730c5c61c4f1 git.kernel.org