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CVE-2024-35975: octeontx2-pf: Fix transmit scheduler resource leak

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix transmit scheduler resource leak Inorder to support shaping and scheduling, Upon class creation Netdev driver allocates trasmit schedulers. The previous patch which added support for Round robin scheduling has a bug due to which driver is not freeing transmit schedulers post class deletion. This patch fixes the same.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.6 before 6.6.28; from 6.7 before 6.8.7; 6.9-rc1, 6.9-rc2, 6.9-rc3 — fixed in 6.6.28, 6.8.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.6.28, 6.8.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7af5582ea67209a23e44be9a9612ba7897be1f47
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b34fe77a1b18654233e4e54b334fcaeddf487100
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bccb798e07f8bb8b91212fe8ed1e421685449076
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7af5582ea67209a23e44be9a9612ba7897be1f47
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b34fe77a1b18654233e4e54b334fcaeddf487100
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bccb798e07f8bb8b91212fe8ed1e421685449076

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