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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put() Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(), we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-13 | Published 2026-01-23 | Updated 2026-02-09 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

bca51197620a257e2954be99b16f05115c3b2630 (git) before 20436f2742a92b7afeb2504eb559a98d2196b001
affected

bca51197620a257e2954be99b16f05115c3b2630 (git) before fe8d456080423b9ed410469fbd1e2098d3acce2b
affected

bca51197620a257e2954be99b16f05115c3b2630 (git) before fa3c411d21ebc26ffd175c7256c37cefa35020aa
affected

Default status
affected

6.11
affected

Any version before 6.11
unaffected

6.12.64 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.4 (semver)
unaffected

6.19 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/20436f2742a92b7afeb2504eb559a98d2196b001

git.kernel.org/...c/fe8d456080423b9ed410469fbd1e2098d3acce2b

git.kernel.org/...c/fa3c411d21ebc26ffd175c7256c37cefa35020aa

cve.org (CVE-2025-71157)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-71157)

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