Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 23, 2026· Updated Feb 9, 2026
RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()
CVE-2025-71157
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()
Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(), we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.11
Patches
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Vulnerability mechanics
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