# CVE-2026-89527: svcrdma: Use svc\_xprt\_put to free listener on create failure

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.4
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.37
- Kernel (Linux): from 2.6.37, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.113; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.56; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.4

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: svcrdma: Use svc_xprt_put to free listener on create failure svc_rdma_create() calls kfree(cma_xprt) when svc_rdma_create_listen_id() fails. svc_xprt_init() has already acquired a net namespace reference via get_net_track(); kfree bypasses svc_xprt_free() which releases it. Replace the kfree() with svc_xprt_put() so the kref_init birth reference drops to zero and svc_xprt_free() dispatches svc_rdma_free() to clean up properly. sc_cm_id is still NULL at that point; the preceding patch added the necessary NULL guard in svc_rdma_free(). svc_xprt_free() also drops the module reference via module_put(), but the caller _svc_xprt_create() does the same on xpo_create failure, double-putting the single try_module_get() it acquired. Take a compensating __module_get() before the svc_xprt_put() to keep the count balanced, matching the convention in svc_rdma_accept()'s error path.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31b8293495ba94ccf494e556a318886b716884b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e35ec558b8cece9399a50141ecaeadbdb8768dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee70d690b5544b736706a9a5796aafb634013f54
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e68380710fc970e07610b2f42594575ad35fdb1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac1dd6002f758ab7dd3e737757e5a1bb1c0b38d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e346ef7bcb137f50c49f969330ab7dcf64ea1654

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