# 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-2026-90108"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:16.813Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:06.785Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90108"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90108.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90108"
title: "net/smc: free stashed qentry before overwrite in REQ_ADD_LINK to ADD_LINK transition"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: free stashed qentry before overwrite in REQ_ADD_LINK to ADD_LINK transition\n\nWhen smc_llc_event_handler() transitions the local LLC flow from\nSMC_LLC_FLOW_REQ_ADD_LINK to SMC_LLC_FLOW_ADD_LINK on arrival of an ADD_LINK\nrequest, it calls smc_llc_flow_qentry_set() unconditionally:\n\n\tif (lgr-\u003ellc_flow_lcl.type == SMC_LLC_FLOW_REQ_ADD_LINK) {\n\t\tlgr-\u003ellc_flow_lcl.type = SMC_LLC_FLOW_ADD_LINK;\n\t\tsmc_llc_flow_qentry_set(&lgr-\u003ellc_flow_lcl, qentry);\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nA CONFIRM_LINK or ADD_LINK_CONT arriving while flow-\u003etype is\nSMC_LLC_FLOW_REQ_ADD_LINK is stashed into flow-\u003eqentry via the\nSMC_LLC_CONFIRM_LINK / SMC_LLC_ADD_LINK_CONT handler (which stores into\nflow-\u003eqentry for any non-NONE flow type).  When the subsequent ADD_LINK\narrives, the REQ_ADD_LINK branch overwrites flow-\u003eqentry with the new pointer\nwithout first freeing the stashed allocation, leaking one kmalloc object.\n\nThe stashed entry has no consumer: smc_llc_wait() is only called from\nllc_add_link_work, which is not yet scheduled while the flow type remains\nREQ_ADD_LINK.  No waiter is sleeping on llc_msg_waiter at this point.\nIt is safe to unconditionally free any stashed qentry before\nthe overwrite.\n\nCall smc_llc_flow_qentry_del() before smc_llc_flow_qentry_set() in the\nREQ_ADD_LINK branch.  smc_llc_flow_qentry_del() already checks flow-\u003eqentry\nbefore freeing, so the normal path where no entry is stashed is a no-op."
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