Message-ID: <2026020440-CVE-2026-23046-8bdb@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  4 Feb 2026 17:00:46 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-23046: virtio_net: fix device mismatch in devm_kzalloc/devm_kfree

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

virtio_net: fix device mismatch in devm_kzalloc/devm_kfree

Initial rss_hdr allocation uses virtio_device->device,
but virtnet_set_queues() frees using net_device->device.
This device mismatch causing below devres warning

[ 3788.514041] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3788.514044] WARNING: drivers/base/devres.c:1095 at devm_kfree+0x84/0x98, CPU#16: vdpa/1463
[ 3788.514054] Modules linked in: octep_vdpa virtio_net virtio_vdpa [last unloaded: virtio_vdpa]
[ 3788.514064] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 1463 Comm: vdpa Tainted: G        W           6.18.0 #10 PREEMPT
[ 3788.514067] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 3788.514069] Hardware name: Marvell CN106XX board (DT)
[ 3788.514071] pstate: 63400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 3788.514074] pc : devm_kfree+0x84/0x98
[ 3788.514076] lr : devm_kfree+0x54/0x98
[ 3788.514079] sp : ffff800084e2f220
[ 3788.514080] x29: ffff800084e2f220 x28: ffff0003b2366000 x27: 000000000000003f
[ 3788.514085] x26: 000000000000003f x25: ffff000106f17c10 x24: 0000000000000080
[ 3788.514089] x23: ffff00045bb8ab08 x22: ffff00045bb8a000 x21: 0000000000000018
[ 3788.514093] x20: ffff0004355c3080 x19: ffff00045bb8aa00 x18: 0000000000080000
[ 3788.514098] x17: 0000000000000040 x16: 000000000000001f x15: 000000000007ffff
[ 3788.514102] x14: 0000000000000488 x13: 0000000000000005 x12: 00000000000fffff
[ 3788.514106] x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: 0000000000000005 x9 : ffff800080c8c05c
[ 3788.514110] x8 : ffff800084e2eeb8 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
[ 3788.514115] x5 : ffff8000831bafe0 x4 : ffff800080c8b010 x3 : ffff0004355c3080
[ 3788.514119] x2 : ffff0004355c3080 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 3788.514123] Call trace:
[ 3788.514125]  devm_kfree+0x84/0x98 (P)
[ 3788.514129]  virtnet_set_queues+0x134/0x2e8 [virtio_net]
[ 3788.514135]  virtnet_probe+0x9c0/0xe00 [virtio_net]
[ 3788.514139]  virtio_dev_probe+0x1e0/0x338
[ 3788.514144]  really_probe+0xc8/0x3a0
[ 3788.514149]  __driver_probe_device+0x84/0x170
[ 3788.514152]  driver_probe_device+0x44/0x120
[ 3788.514155]  __device_attach_driver+0xc4/0x168
[ 3788.514158]  bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xf0
[ 3788.514161]  __device_attach+0xa4/0x1c0
[ 3788.514164]  device_initial_probe+0x1c/0x30
[ 3788.514168]  bus_probe_device+0xb4/0xc0
[ 3788.514170]  device_add+0x614/0x828
[ 3788.514173]  register_virtio_device+0x214/0x258
[ 3788.514175]  virtio_vdpa_probe+0xa0/0x110 [virtio_vdpa]
[ 3788.514179]  vdpa_dev_probe+0xa8/0xd8
[ 3788.514183]  really_probe+0xc8/0x3a0
[ 3788.514186]  __driver_probe_device+0x84/0x170
[ 3788.514189]  driver_probe_device+0x44/0x120
[ 3788.514192]  __device_attach_driver+0xc4/0x168
[ 3788.514195]  bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xf0
[ 3788.514197]  __device_attach+0xa4/0x1c0
[ 3788.514200]  device_initial_probe+0x1c/0x30
[ 3788.514203]  bus_probe_device+0xb4/0xc0
[ 3788.514206]  device_add+0x614/0x828
[ 3788.514209]  _vdpa_register_device+0x58/0x88
[ 3788.514211]  octep_vdpa_dev_add+0x104/0x228 [octep_vdpa]
[ 3788.514215]  vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit+0x2d0/0x3c0
[ 3788.514218]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe4/0x158
[ 3788.514222]  genl_rcv_msg+0x218/0x298
[ 3788.514225]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x64/0x138
[ 3788.514229]  genl_rcv+0x40/0x60
[ 3788.514233]  netlink_unicast+0x32c/0x3b0
[ 3788.514237]  netlink_sendmsg+0x170/0x3b8
[ 3788.514241]  __sys_sendto+0x12c/0x1c0
[ 3788.514246]  __arm64_sys_sendto+0x30/0x48
[ 3788.514249]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x58/0xf8
[ 3788.514255]  do_el0_svc+0x48/0xd0
[ 3788.514259]  el0_svc+0x48/0x210
[ 3788.514264]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
[ 3788.514268]  el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0
[ 3788.514271] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fix by using virtio_device->device consistently for
allocation and deallocation

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-23046 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 4944be2f5ad8c74b93e4e272f3a0f1a136bbc438 and fixed in 6.18.6 with commit a5e2d902f64c76169c771f584559c82b588090e3
	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 4944be2f5ad8c74b93e4e272f3a0f1a136bbc438 and fixed in 6.19-rc5 with commit acb4bc6e1ba34ae1a34a9334a1ce8474c909466e

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-23046
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/virtio_net.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5e2d902f64c76169c771f584559c82b588090e3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acb4bc6e1ba34ae1a34a9334a1ce8474c909466e

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