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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 29, 2024· Updated Jan 5, 2026

RDMA/restrack: Fix potential invalid address access

CVE-2024-42080

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/restrack: Fix potential invalid address access

struct rdma_restrack_entry's kern_name was set to KBUILD_MODNAME in ib_create_cq(), while if the module exited but forgot del this rdma_restrack_entry, it would cause a invalid address access in rdma_restrack_clean() when print the owner of this rdma_restrack_entry.

These code is used to help find one forgotten PD release in one of the ULPs. But it is not needed anymore, so delete them.

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