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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72494"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:28.280Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:45:03.365Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72494"
title: "RDMA/irdma: Replace waitqueue and flag with completion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/irdma: Replace waitqueue and flag with completion\n\nThe driver previously used a waitqueue along with an explicit\nrequest_done flag, but without proper barriers around request_done.\n\nAn earlier patch by Gui-Dong Han \u003changuidong02@gmail.com\u003e attempted\nto fix this by adding the missing memory barriers. Rather than\nadding the barriers, this patch replaces the waitqueue+flag with\na completion, which is designed for this exact purpose."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"44d9e52977a1b90b0db1c7f8b197c218e9226520","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d89bff21c12e543d12ad70cb0103cf815891b24"},{"version":"44d9e52977a1b90b0db1c7f8b197c218e9226520","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8de303efe2ff4fcbf240dfc6eb3469e1e8f18a3f"},{"version":"44d9e52977a1b90b0db1c7f8b197c218e9226520","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"706591cccdd3ac2c0ddc8c2ed6c89a6be9865826"},{"version":"44d9e52977a1b90b0db1c7f8b197c218e9226520","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bde37aed0724c0139dea177f3aae8d989b6babb1"},{"version":"44d9e52977a1b90b0db1c7f8b197c218e9226520","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9c8c45e6d2f438a3c8e643ae78b59454fa0fadd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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