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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23000"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-25T14:36:14.854Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:58:04.055Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23000"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23000.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23000"
title: "net/mlx5e: Fix crash on profile change rollback failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix crash on profile change rollback failure\n\nmlx5e_netdev_change_profile can fail to attach a new profile and can\nfail to rollback to old profile, in such case, we could end up with a\ndangling netdev with a fully reset netdev_priv. A retry to change\nprofile, e.g. another attempt to call mlx5e_netdev_change_profile via\nswitchdev mode change, will crash trying to access the now NULL\npriv-\u003emdev.\n\nThis fix allows mlx5e_netdev_change_profile() to handle previous\nfailures and an empty priv, by not assuming priv is valid.\n\nPass netdev and mdev to all flows requiring\nmlx5e_netdev_change_profile() and avoid passing priv.\nIn mlx5e_netdev_change_profile() check if current priv is valid, and if\nnot, just attach the new profile without trying to access the old one.\n\nThis fixes the following oops, when enabling switchdev mode for the 2nd\ntime after first time failure:\n\n ## Enabling switchdev mode first time:\n\nmlx5_core 0012:03:00.1: E-Switch: Supported tc chains and prios offload\nworkqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mlx5e\": -EINTR\nmlx5_core 0012:03:00.1: mlx5e_netdev_init_profile:6214:(pid 37199): mlx5e_priv_init failed, err=-12\nmlx5_core 0012:03:00.1 gpu3rdma1: mlx5e_netdev_change_profile: new profile init failed, -12\nworkqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mlx5e\": -EINTR\nmlx5_core 0012:03:00.1: mlx5e_netdev_init_profile:6214:(pid 37199): mlx5e_priv_init failed, err=-12\nmlx5_core 0012:03:00.1 gpu3rdma1: mlx5e_netdev_change_profile: failed to rollback to orig profile, -12\n                                                                         ^^^^^^^^\nmlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)\n\n ## retry: Enabling switchdev mode 2nd time:\n\nmlx5_core 0000:00:03.0: E-Switch: Supported tc chains and prios offload\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 520 Comm: devlink Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4+ #91 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:mlx5e_detach_netdev+0x3c/0x90\nCode: 50 00 00 f0 80 4f 78 02 48 8b bf e8 07 00 00 48 85 ff 74 16 48 8b 73 78 48 d1 ee 83 e6 01 83 f6 01 40 0f b6 f6 e8 c4 42 00 00 \u003c48\u003e 8b 45 38 48 85 c0 74 08 48 89 df e8 cc 47 40 1e 48 8b bb f0 07\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90000673890 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881036a89c0 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff888113f63800 RSI: ffffffff822fe720 RDI: 0000000000000000\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000002dcd R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: ffffc900006738e8 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8881036a89c0 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  00007fdfb8384740(0000) GS:ffff88856a9d6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 0000000112ae0005 CR4: 0000000000370ef0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x45/0xb0\n mlx5e_vport_rep_load+0x27b/0x2d0\n mlx5_esw_offloads_rep_load+0x72/0xf0\n esw_offloads_enable+0x5d0/0x970\n mlx5_eswitch_enable_locked+0x349/0x430\n ? is_mp_supported+0x57/0xb0\n mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x26b/0x430\n devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x6f/0xf0\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe8/0x140\n genl_rcv_msg+0x18b/0x290\n ? __pfx_devlink_nl_pre_doit+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_devlink_nl_post_doit+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x52/0x100\n genl_rcv+0x28/0x40\n netlink_unicast+0x282/0x3e0\n ? __alloc_skb+0xd6/0x190\n netlink_sendmsg+0x1f7/0x430\n __sys_sendto+0x213/0x220\n ? __sys_recvmsg+0x6a/0xd0\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1f0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nRIP: 0033:0x7fdfb8495047"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4d7eb57687f358cd498ea3624519236af8db97e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dad52950b409d6923880d65a4cddb383286e17d2"},{"version":"c4d7eb57687f358cd498ea3624519236af8db97e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e05b8084a20f6bd5827d338c928e5e0fcbafa496"},{"version":"c4d7eb57687f358cd498ea3624519236af8db97e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dadc4077e3f77d6d31e199a925fc7a705e7adeb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"6.12.67","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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