Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-98172
CVE-2026-98172
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix smbd_connection leak on cifs_get_tcp_session() error
When an RDMA connection is successfully established via smbd_get_connection() but cifs_get_tcp_session() later fails (e.g. kthread_create() returns an error), the error path frees tcp_ses without first destroying the smbd_connection.
Fix this by calling smbd_destroy() in the out_err cleanup path before kfree(tcp_ses). smbd_destroy() safely handles the case where smbd_conn is NULL, so it can be called unconditionally.
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6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3164402c58940ff58a3cecdb026405f07b0253afnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c908e49d349266dff0c86dda6a05df0ff19b824nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/928edc4bd6a617caabeb575fc13c254d9df623c4nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b26a3fcf2f1c2cadba400290b639f01395db8fc8nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3344bb0ff5ec8a276f42239e140f5442841ef23nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e75c96157d45e498970158c8f7373d90102e33b9nvd
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