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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails

CVE-2024-46737

Description

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

nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails

If the commands allocation fails in nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmds() the kernel crashes in nvmet_tcp_release_queue_work() because of a NULL pointer dereference.

nvmet: failed to install queue 0 cntlid 1 ret 6 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008

Fix the bug by setting queue->nr_cmds to zero in case nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmd() fails.

Affected products

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Patches

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