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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80981" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:41.543Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:05.740Z" 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-2026-80981" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80981.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80981" title: "net/smc: fix use-after-free of the LLC qentry in smc_llc_srv_add_link()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix use-after-free of the LLC qentry in smc_llc_srv_add_link()\n\nsmc_llc_srv_add_link() keeps add_llc pointing into the queue entry:\n\n add_llc = &qentry-\u003emsg.add_link;\t\t\tsmc_llc.c:1482\n ...\n smc_llc_save_add_link_info(link_new, add_llc);\tsmc_llc.c:1494\n smc_llc_flow_qentry_del(&lgr-\u003ellc_flow_lcl);\t\tsmc_llc.c:1495\n ...\n u8 *llc_msg = smc_link_shared_v2_rxbuf(link) ?\n\t(u8 *)lgr-\u003ewr_rx_buf_v2 : (u8 *)add_llc;\tsmc_llc.c:1504\n smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys(link, link_new, llc_msg);\tsmc_llc.c:1506\n\nsmc_llc_flow_qentry_del() kfree()s the entry, so on a link without a shared\nv2 receive buffer the pointer handed to smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys() is\nalready freed. Before the Fixes: commit that branch always used\nlgr-\u003ewr_rx_buf_v2 and add_llc was not used after the free.\n\nReproduced on an unpatched tree over rxe, with KASAN, kasan_multi_shot\nand a link forced to max_recv_sge == 1: the entry is freed and read by\nthe same call, and the freeing frame is smc_llc_srv_add_link() itself.\n\n [ 2.523161] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350\n [ 2.523499] Read of size 2 at addr ffff8880052194de by task kworker/0:1/11\n [ 2.523789]\n [ 2.523862] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-p0-g2c9dd296545d #35 PREEMPT(lazy)\n [ 2.523865] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n [ 2.523866] Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work\n [ 2.523869] Call Trace:\n [ 2.523870] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 2.523871] dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70\n [ 2.523872] print_report+0xd0/0x630\n [ 2.523874] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523876] ? smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350\n [ 2.523878] kasan_report+0xce/0x100\n [ 2.523879] ? smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350\n [ 2.523881] smc_llc_save_add_link_rkeys+0x333/0x350\n [ 2.523883] ? smcr_buf_reg_lgr+0x2a4/0x660\n [ 2.523885] smc_llc_srv_add_link+0xaa2/0x1e50\n [ 2.523888] ? _printk+0xba/0xf0\n [ 2.523897] ? __pfx_smc_llc_srv_add_link+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523899] ? down_write+0xb0/0x130\n [ 2.523903] ? __pfx_down_write+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523905] smc_listen_work+0x489e/0x4d00\n [ 2.523907] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1c6/0x3a0\n [ 2.523911] ? __pfx_smc_listen_work+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523913] ? release_sock+0x148/0x1d0\n [ 2.523915] ? smc_tcp_listen_work+0xb4f/0xfc0\n [ 2.523917] ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x80/0xe0\n [ 2.523918] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523920] process_one_work+0x633/0x1030\n [ 2.523922] ? assign_work+0x11d/0x370\n [ 2.523924] worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10\n [ 2.523926] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523928] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523929] kthread+0x2c6/0x3b0\n [ 2.523931] ? recalc_sigpending+0x15c/0x1e0\n [ 2.523934] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523935] ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0\n [ 2.523937] ? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523938] ? __switch_to+0x572/0xdd0\n [ 2.523943] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [ 2.523944] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n [ 2.523947] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [ 2.523948]\n [ 2.531253] Allocated by task 48:\n [ 2.531399] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60\n [ 2.531570] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30\n [ 2.531737] __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0\n [ 2.531905] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x158/0x370\n [ 2.532100] smc_llc_enqueue+0x72/0x560\n [ 2.532268] smc_wr_rx_tasklet_fn+0x474/0xa80\n [ 2.532491] tasklet_action_common+0x20f/0x8a0\n [ 2.532714] handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x590\n [ 2.532886] do_softirq+0x3b/0x60\n [ 2.533036] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x61/0x70\n [ 2.533221] __alloc_skb+0x732/0x890\n [ 2.533384] rxe_init_packet+0x16b/0x4f0\n [ 2.533567] prepare_ack_packet+0xb8/0x830\n [ 2.533760] rxe_receiver+0x495/0x96e0\n [ 2.533933] do_work+0x144/0x470\n [ 2\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"27ef6a9981fe74191849966a6d5e0400a4008ab8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c52a998a223e7e84333306996edec096178d1e95"},{"version":"27ef6a9981fe74191849966a6d5e0400a4008ab8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"adef84cc85d449ac28d2b4b4c49cf19619c56e27"},{"version":"27ef6a9981fe74191849966a6d5e0400a4008ab8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a42a459ef0e54cb0c4b3e43e21cb0e658e664f64"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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