CVE-2026-23035

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5e: Pass netdev to mlx5edestroynetdev instead of priv

mlx5e_priv is an unstable structure that can be memset(0) if profile attaching fails.

Pass netdev to mlx5edestroynetdev() to guarantee it will work on a valid netdev.

On mlx5e_remove: Check validity of priv->profile, before attempting to cleanup any resources that might be not there.

This fixes a kernel oops in mlx5e_remove when switchdev mode fails due to change profile failure.

$ devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:00:03.0 mode switchdev Error: mlx5core: Failed setting eswitch to offloads. dmesg: workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq "mlx5e": -EINTR mlx5core 0012:03:00.1: mlx5enetdevinitprofile:6214:(pid 37199): mlx5eprivinit failed, err=-12 mlx5core 0012:03:00.1 gpu3rdma1: mlx5enetdevchangeprofile: new profile init failed, -12 workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq "mlx5e": -EINTR mlx5core 0012:03:00.1: mlx5enetdevinitprofile:6214:(pid 37199): mlx5eprivinit failed, err=-12 mlx5core 0012:03:00.1 gpu3rdma1: mlx5enetdevchange_profile: failed to rollback to orig profile, -12

$ devlink dev reload pci/0000:00:03.0 ==> oops

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000370 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 520 Comm: devlink Not tainted 6.18.0-rc5+ #115 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:mlx5edcbnldscpapp+0x23/0x100 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000083f8b8 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: ffff8881126fc380 RBX: ffff8881015ac400 RCX: ffffffff826ffc45 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8881035109c0 RBP: ffff8881035109c0 R08: ffff888101e3e838 R09: ffff888100264e10 R10: ffffc9000083f898 R11: ffffc9000083f8a0 R12: ffff888101b921a0 R13: ffff888101b921a0 R14: ffff8881015ac9a0 R15: ffff8881015ac400 FS: 00007f789a3c8740(0000) GS:ffff88856aa59000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000370 CR3: 000000010b6c0001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> mlx5eremove+0x57/0x110 devicereleasedriverinternal+0x19c/0x200 busremovedevice+0xc6/0x130 devicedel+0x160/0x3d0 ? devlparamdriverinitvalueget+0x2d/0x90 mlx5detachdevice+0x89/0xe0 mlx5unloadonedevllocked+0x3a/0x70 mlx5devlinkreloaddown+0xc8/0x220 devlinkreload+0x7d/0x260 devlinknlreloaddoit+0x45b/0x5a0 genlfamilyrcvmsg_doit+0xe8/0x140