CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98807
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: Fix slab-out-of-bounds when handling team device events
The mlx5_handle_changeupper_event() and mlx5_handle_changeinfodata_event()
functions check for LAG masters (which includes both bonding and team
devices) but only call bonding-specific APIs. When processing team device
events, calling bond_slave_get_rcu() and bond_is_slave_inactive() on
team_port structures causes KASAN to detect an out-of-bounds memory access
since team_port is smaller than bond slave.
Fix this by wrapping the bond-specific API calls with a check for bonding
devices. This allows the function to still process LAG events for both
bonding and teams but only calls bond-specific functions when dealing with
actual bonding devices.
For mlx5_handle_changeinfodata_event(), keep the explicit bond check as
mlx5 doesn't handle state information for team ports anyway.
Tested with Mellanox ConnectX-5 on Linux 7.2.0-rc6:
- Bonding: PASS (no regressions)
- Team device: PASS (no KASAN errors)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04c824940d52871c49866a4ac67b504146f7cf35 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ca0e79f31ea810346a79dda545ba344ede1d47 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a6e67ff267af2053a793825c3b7844741fed461 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8117cbc504cb01980258d8a8c9be8f57cf0aaceb git.kernel.org