CVE-2026-90173
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: smbdirect: free completion queues with ibfreecq()
smbdirectconnectiondestroy_qp() creates the send and receive completion
queues with iballoccqany(), which for IBPOLL_WORKQUEUE arms an
internal completion handler that runs ibcqpoll_work() on a workqueue.
Tearing those CQs down with ibdestroycq() frees them without first
cancelling that poll work.
If the provider posts a completion late -- for example Soft-RoCE (rxe)
posting an RNR error from rxereceiver() after rdmadestroy_qp() -- the
handler re-queues ibcqpoll_work() on the already-freed CQ, and a
follow-on access faults in rxereqnotify_cq().
Use ibfreecq(), which cancelworksync()es the poll work before freeing
the CQ, so no completion handler can run against a freed queue.
[ 1236.599526] ==================================================================
[ 1236.602142] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ibcqpoll_work+0xd0/0x1a0
[ 1236.605524] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888111865800 by task kworker/4:1H/82
[ 1236.609017]
[ 1236.609270] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 82 Comm: kworker/4:1H Not tainted 7.2.0-rc3-next-20260717-virtme #110 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 1236.609287] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
[ 1236.609498] Workqueue: ib-comp-wq ibcqpoll_work
[ 1236.609525] Call Trace:
[ 1236.609536] <TASK>
[ 1236.609545] _dumpstack+0x21/0x60
[ 1236.609562] dumpstacklvl+0xc2/0x100
[ 1236.609573] printaddressdescription+0x77/0x200
[ 1236.609587] ? ibcqpoll_work+0xd0/0x1a0
[ 1236.609597] print_report+0x58/0x70
[ 1236.609607] kasan_report+0x117/0x150
[ 1236.609623] ? ibcqpoll_work+0xd0/0x1a0
[ 1236.609636] ? processscheduledworks+0x954/0x1600
[ 1236.609650] ibcqpoll_work+0xd0/0x1a0
[ 1236.609662] ? processscheduledworks+0x954/0x1600
[ 1236.609674] processscheduledworks+0xc22/0x1600
[ 1236.609698] ? _pfxprocessscheduledworks+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609713] ? _pfxassign_work+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609726] ? lockisheld_type+0x7b/0x110
[ 1236.609741] worker_thread+0x975/0xee0
[ 1236.609757] ? _pfxdorawspin_lock+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609775] ? _kthreadparkme+0x21e/0x260
[ 1236.609789] kthread+0x3a6/0x490
[ 1236.609800] ? _pfxworker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609809] ? _pfxkthread+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609820] retfromfork+0x55a/0xa20
[ 1236.609835] ? _pfxretfromfork+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609850] ? _pfxkthread+0x10/0x10
[ 1236.609861] retfromfork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 1236.609880] </TASK>
[ 1236.609886]
[ 1236.661292] Allocated by task 5076:
[ 1236.662640] kasansavetrack+0x3e/0x80
[ 1236.663842] _kasankmalloc+0x72/0x90
[ 1236.664763] _kmallocnoprof+0x2b0/0x5d0
[ 1236.665356] _iballoc_cq+0x284/0x1000
[ 1236.666573] _iballoccqany+0x23e/0x340
[ 1236.668654] smbdirectconnectioncreate_qp+0x6f7/0x1070
[ 1236.669757] smbdirectacceptconnect_request+0x500/0x1ca0
[ 1236.672625] smbdirectlistenrdmaeventhandler+0x1655/0x1c50
[ 1236.673930] cmalistenhandler+0x1bf/0x260
[ 1236.674923] cmacmevent_handler+0x128/0x380
[ 1236.676926] cmaibreq_handler+0x2d3d/0x4de0
[ 1236.678368] cmprocesswork+0xb0/0x530
[ 1236.680454] cmqueuework_unlock+0xb1/0x230
[ 1236.681673] cmworkhandler+0x969f/0xdca0
[ 1236.682704] processscheduledworks+0xc22/0x1600
[ 1236.683447] worker_thread+0x975/0xee0
[ 1236.685901] kthread+0x3a6/0x490
[ 1236.688164] retfromfork+0x55a/0xa20
[ 1236.689522] retfromfork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 1236.690073]
[ 1236.690378] Freed by task 5137:
[ 1236.692242] kasansavetrack+0x3e/0x80
[ 1236.694272] kasansavefree_info+0x40/0x50
[ 1236.695514] _kasanslab_free+0x3a/0x60
[ 1236.696773] kfree+0x14e/0x4e0
[ 1236.697216] ibdestroycq_user+0x18d/0x250
[ 1236.699817] smbdirectconnectiondestroy_qp+0xf2/0x280
[ 1236.702115] smbdirectsocketdestroy_sync+0x1607/0x2720
[ 1236.704062] smbdirectsocketrelease+0x140/0x280
[ 1236.705286] smbdirectfree_transpor
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Related Resources
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a953b1a47fffb71e70767bc1e914401e3c2f27f, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2c0cacbcff9d56c03b296f68f22151c4223b04, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90173.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90173, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git