# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80979"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:40.171Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:03.770Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80979"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80979.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80979"
title: "net/smc: unregister the connection before draining the rx tasklet"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: unregister the connection before draining the rx tasklet\n\nsmc_conn_free() calls smc_ism_unset_conn() only while the link group is\nstill on its device list, and never sets conn-\u003ekilled.\nsmc_lgr_terminate_sched() unlinks the group immediately and defers killing\nits connections to a work item, so a connection freed in that window keeps\nits smcd-\u003econn[] slot with both gates in smcd_handle_irq() open, and the\ndevice can re-arm the receive tasklet after tasklet_kill() has returned. On\nthe DMB-nocopy path the ghost send buffer is freed right after that drain,\nso the re-armed tasklet dereferences it.\n\nUnregister unconditionally and drain before the detach at both teardown\nsites, mirroring rmb_desc, which smc_buf_unuse() releases after the drain.\nClear conn-\u003esndbuf_desc before freeing it as well, so a reader that samples\nthe pointer cannot get one that is already freed."
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