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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46176"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:30.398Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:53.745Z"
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-2026-46176"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46176.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46176"
title: "RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init()\n\nmlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init() allocates two SRQs, s0 and s1. When\nib_create_srq() fails for s1, the error branch destroys s0 but falls\nthrough and unconditionally assigns the freed s0 and the ERR_PTR s1 to\ndevr-\u003es0 and devr-\u003es1.\n\nThis leads to several problems: the lock-free fast path checks\n\"if (devr-\u003es1) return 0;\" and treats the ERR_PTR as already initialised;\nusers in mlx5_ib_create_qp() dereference the freed SRQ or ERR_PTR via\nto_msrq(devr-\u003es0)-\u003emsrq.srqn; and mlx5_ib_dev_res_cleanup() dereferences\nthe ERR_PTR and double-frees s0 on teardown.\n\nFix by adding the same `goto unlock` in the s1 failure path."
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