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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45898"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:07.737Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:39.480Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45898"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45898.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45898"
title: "RDMA/iwcm: Fix workqueue list corruption by removing work_list"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/iwcm: Fix workqueue list corruption by removing work_list\n\nThe commit e1168f0 (\"RDMA/iwcm: Simplify cm_event_handler()\")\nchanged the work submission logic to unconditionally call\nqueue_work() with the expectation that queue_work() would\nhave no effect if work was already pending. The problem is\nthat a free list of struct iwcm_work is used (for which\nstruct work_struct is embedded), so each call to queue_work()\nis basically unique and therefore does indeed queue the work.\n\nThis causes a problem in the work handler which walks the work_list\nuntil it's empty to process entries. This means that a single\nrun of the work handler could process item N+1 and release it\nback to the free list while the actual workqueue entry is still\nqueued. It could then get reused (INIT_WORK...) and lead to\nlist corruption in the workqueue logic.\n\nFix this by just removing the work_list. The workqueue already\ndoes this for us.\n\nThis fixes the following error that was observed when stress\ntesting with ucmatose on an Intel E830 in iWARP mode:\n\n[  151.465780] list_del corruption. next-\u003eprev should be ffff9f0915c69c08, but was ffff9f0a1116be08. (next=ffff9f0a15b11c08)\n[  151.466639] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[  151.466986] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:67!\n[  151.467349] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[  151.467753] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 2306 Comm: kworker/u64:18 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc4+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[  151.468466] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[  151.469192] Workqueue:  0x0 (iw_cm_wq)\n[  151.469478] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xf0/0x100\n[  151.469942] Code: c7 58 5f 4c b2 e8 10 50 aa ff 0f 0b 48 89 ef e8 36 57 cb ff 48 8b 55 08 48 89 e9 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 a8 5f 4c b2 e8 f0 4f aa ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90\n[  151.471323] RSP: 0000:ffffb15644e7bd68 EFLAGS: 00010046\n[  151.471712] RAX: 000000000000006d RBX: ffff9f0915c69c08 RCX: 0000000000000027\n[  151.472243] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f0a37d9c600\n[  151.472768] RBP: ffff9f0a15b11c08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffff7fff\n[  151.473294] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffb15644e7bba8 R12: ffff9f092339ee68\n[  151.473817] R13: ffff9f0900059c28 R14: ffff9f092339ee78 R15: 0000000000000000\n[  151.474344] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f0a847b5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[  151.474934] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[  151.475362] CR2: 0000559e233a9088 CR3: 000000020296b004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0\n[  151.475895] PKRU: 55555554\n[  151.476118] Call Trace:\n[  151.476331]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  151.476497]  move_linked_works+0x49/0xa0\n[  151.476792]  __pwq_activate_work.isra.46+0x2f/0xa0\n[  151.477151]  pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x1e0/0x2f0\n[  151.477479]  process_scheduled_works+0x1c8/0x410\n[  151.477823]  worker_thread+0x125/0x260\n[  151.478108]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[  151.478430]  kthread+0xfe/0x240\n[  151.478671]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  151.478955]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  151.479240]  ret_from_fork+0x208/0x270\n[  151.479523]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  151.479806]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[  151.480103]  \u003c/TASK\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38c5b49fffa1b760959af74f11806eeb3ef4706d"},{"version":"e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb715133e0ae12514bba4d2d5ce1dee774476056"},{"version":"e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6b9e793e74e372daa266fd0d58b751305877897"},{"version":"e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7874eeacfa42177565c01d5198726671acf7adf2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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