* [CVE-2026-100075][MODERATE REGULAR] RDMA/srpt: Fix srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() unwind counters [ Upstream
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CVE: CVE-2026-100075
Priority: MODERATE REGULAR
AL-KERNEL base severity: MODERATE
KPANIC flag: NO
Patch: RDMA/srpt: Fix srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() unwind counters [ Upstream
Commit: af00051dbc9f467d4840ec709680660a3f8990fa
Upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=af00051dbc9f467d4840ec709680660a3f8990fa
Original CVE announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2026-100075
Analysis date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:39:42 -0400
ActionableScore: 2
ActionableScore lower bound: unknown
Actionable bucket: Ordinary Moderate
Manual review required: NO
Summary:
No one-sentence report phrase was found.
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ABOUT THIS REPORT
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The original Linux kernel CVE announcement for CVE-2026-100075 is available here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2026-100075
The original announcement does not normally provide a security severity
estimate, CVSS assessment, or enough information to determine whether the
reported kernel bug represents a practically relevant security issue.
This report was generated by AL-KERNEL, an AI-assisted Linux kernel
vulnerability analysis system developed by Alexander Larkin. It combines
an autonomous classifier with LLM-assisted technical analysis and a
separate ActionableScore mechanism.
The purpose of this report is to prioritize Linux kernel CVEs before
manual review, identify cases that require prompt investigation, and
support automatic closure of issues that are unlikely to have meaningful
security impact.
Published priority for this report: MODERATE REGULAR
Manual review required: NO
A detailed explanation of the methodology and priority rules is included
at the end of this message.
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AL-KERNEL CLASSIFICATION RESULT
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CVE-2026-100075 MODERATE https://www.kernelcve.org/list/?q=CVE-2026-100075 CHECK WITH IMPACT FROM ORIG NN IMPORTANT Maybe valid. Check manually. Hints by AL-KERNEL: The best (paranoid) CVSS is 'AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H';*CWE-672;*CWE-664;**CWE-400;BEST CVSS score: '4.8';DESCR 'A failure in srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs during multi buffer indirect descriptor setup can leave stale n_rw_ctx and n_rdma counters and a dangling rw_ctxs pointer in the I O context. Later send queue credit accounting can subtract an incorrect number of credits in srpt_queue_response or srpt_write_pending, potentially stalling I O processing or exhausting queue resources and causing denial of service. For the CVSS the PR:L value is used because an attacker normally needs access to the RDMA fabric and an SRP target session or an equivalent ability to submit SRPT requests. The attack vector is adjacent network because SRPT operates over RDMA fabrics and is not normally exposed to the public Internet. The failure path requires a multi buffer request and an allocation failure, so AC:H is appropriate. Impact is denial of service. A dangling pointer exists after the failed allocation, but the available patch context does not demonstrate a later dereference or a memory corruption primitive. YES REQUIRES MANUAL CHECK';YES REQUIRES MANUAL CHECK; ,and ActionableScore result is Ordinary Moderate (with actual score 2) YES SIMPLEFIX NETWORK LINUS LOWERED_FROM_HIGH_BASED_ON_GUESSCVSS DECREASED_TO_MODERATEREG_BASED_ON_ACTIONABLESCORELESSTHAN4 NO NO checked
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ACTIONABLESCORE ANALYSIS
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ActionableScore=2
PrimitiveClass=CLASS_C
RealUAF=NO
HostAdminRequired=UNKNOWN
NamespaceScopedPrivilege=UNKNOWN
ImportantCandidate=NO
ManualReview=RECOMMENDED
AutoDowngradeAllowed=YES
1. ActionableScore
* Raw conservative score: 2
* Conservative score: 2
* Raw paranoid score: 2
* Paranoid score: 2
* Final recommended bucket: **Ordinary Moderate**::
2. Signal breakdown
* +1 Concrete invalid-state and resource-accounting defect. The error unwind frees `rw_ctxs` but preserves partially incremented `n_rw_ctx` and `n_rdma` values, so later SQ credit accounting uses state that no longer describes allocated RDMA contexts.
* +1 Plausible availability impact. Incorrect send-queue credit subtraction can stall or disrupt SRPT I O request processing after the allocation failure path.
Not awarded:
* No Real UAF +2. `rw_ctxs` becomes dangling after `kfree`, but the supplied patch and commit do not establish a later dereference, traversal, write, or second free through that pointer.
* No concrete repeated release or refcount mutation. There is one `kfree` operation, followed by pointer clearing. No exact same pointer is shown reaching another `kfree`, `put`, or refcount-changing operation.
* No controlled reclaim, object replacement, arbitrary write, callback control, disclosure, integrity impact, or LPE primitive is demonstrated.
* No direct remote reachability +2. SRPT uses RDMA fabric connectivity, but the complete attacker authentication, target-session, and request-submission prerequisites are not shown.
* No reliable kernel crash +1. The supplied evidence establishes incorrect accounting and potential I O disruption, not an Oops or panic.
* No hard-race penalty. This is an ordered allocation-failure unwind problem, not a demonstrated timing race.
* No host-admin penalty. The evidence does not establish that host-admin-equivalent privilege is required for the complete trigger.
3. Reachability analysis
The evaluated attacker is an RDMA/SRP initiator able to submit a multi-buffer indirect descriptor to an SRPT target. Reaching the vulnerable path also requires `srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs()` to fail partway through context allocation, which may depend on memory pressure or allocation conditions not shown in the patch.
SRPT is normally reachable over an RDMA fabric rather than directly from the public Internet. The supplied material does not establish whether a non-administrative tenant, container, or ordinary local user can create the required RDMA connection and SRP session. Therefore `HostAdminRequired=UNKNOWN` and `NamespaceScopedPrivilege=UNKNOWN`.
No special physical hardware condition is proven beyond an SRPT-capable RDMA deployment. No concrete race is involved.
4. Primitive and severity interpretation
The established primitive is stale bookkeeping after an allocation-unwind failure. The heap-backed `rw_ctxs` allocation is freed, while the associated counters retain values for contexts that no longer exist. This can make later send-queue availability accounting subtract an incorrect amount.
Although `rw_ctxs` is dangling before the fix, the available evidence does not show a later stale-pointer dereference or use of freed memory. This is therefore not a confirmed UAF. It is an invalid-state and accounting defect, classified as `CLASS_C`.
The demonstrated or directly supported consequence is I O disruption or denial of service through incorrect SQ-credit accounting. A stronger consequence such as post-free memory corruption, information disclosure, privilege escalation, or arbitrary kernel write is speculative and not supported by the supplied call paths.
`ImportantCandidate=NO` because no meaningful unresolved active-object lifetime primitive is established. `AutoDowngradeAllowed=YES` because the patch evidence supports a constrained accounting/availability issue rather than active kernel memory corruption.
5. One-sentence report phrase
An SRPT allocation-unwind failure can leave stale RDMA context counters and a dangling pointer, causing incorrect send-queue credit accounting and potential SRPT I O denial of service.
6. Manual review recommendation
MANUAL CHECK RECOMMENDED
Confirm the callers of `srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs()` and the later uses of `ioctx->rw_ctxs`, `n_rw_ctx`, and `n_rdma` to determine whether any path dereferences the freed pointer or whether the effect is limited to SQ-credit accounting.
7. Call-site confidence
Call-site confidence: medium
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UPSTREAM PATCH SUMMARY
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Patch: RDMA/srpt: Fix srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() unwind counters [ Upstream
Commit: af00051dbc9f467d4840ec709680660a3f8990fa
Upstream URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=af00051dbc9f467d4840ec709680660a3f8990fa
Changed files:
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
Diff excerpt:
Not included in this email. See the upstream URL for the full patch.
Full patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=af00051dbc9f467d4840ec709680660a3f8990fa
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DETAILED REPORT METHODOLOGY
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The original Linux kernel CVE announcement for CVE-2026-100075 can be found here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2026-100075
The original CVE announcement normally does not include a security-level
estimate. In particular, it may not contain a CVSS assessment, an impact
level, or enough information to determine whether the reported bug is a
practically relevant security issue. One purpose of this parallel CVE list
is to provide that missing technical and prioritization information.
The original goal of the AL-KERNEL project was to prioritize Linux kernel
CVE analysis automatically before manual review. The system can also help
identify non-security issues that may be suitable for automatic closure.
This report was generated by AL-KERNEL, an AI-assisted Linux kernel
vulnerability analysis system developed by Alexander Larkin.
The first analysis stage combines an autonomous classifier with additional
LLM-based analysis. The autonomous classifier runs locally on a CPU and is
based on a backpropagation neural network. Together, these mechanisms
produce a technical vulnerability description, identify likely weakness
types, estimate CVSS severity, and provide input for ActionableScore.
Two CVSS estimates are retained because incomplete kernel vulnerability
information often permits more than one defensible interpretation:
Conservative CVSS vector: Not available
The Best / paranoid CVSS vector: AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The Best / paranoid CVSS score: 4.8
The conservative vector represents a lower-impact interpretation.
The Best/paranoid vector intentionally represents a plausible upper-bound
interpretation and should not automatically be treated as demonstrated
real-world impact.
CVSS may also need to be adjusted for a particular Linux deployment,
because actual reachability, privileges, enabled kernel configuration,
hardware, namespaces, exposed device nodes, and other environmental
conditions can differ significantly between systems.
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urgency. Its analysis may include reachability, attack prerequisites,
subsystem exposure, memory-corruption characteristics, denial-of-service
reliability, and possible confidentiality, integrity, or
privilege-escalation impact.
Conservative ActionableScore: unknown
Paranoid ActionableScore: 2
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ActionableScore below 5 -> MODERATE REGULAR
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The distinction between MODERATE REGULAR and MODERATE 7.0 makes it
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and similar (to filter False-Negative results from the LLM usage).
KPANIC indicates that a reliable kernel crash, kernel panic, or similarly
serious kernel availability impact was identified by the classification
workflow.
AL-KERNEL base severity for this report: MODERATE
KPANIC detected for this report: NO
Published priority for this report (same as in Subject): MODERATE REGULAR
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