CVE-2026-98172

Name	CVE-2026-98172
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix smbd_connection leak on cifs_get_tcp_session() error When an RDMA connection is successfully established via smbd_get_connection() but cifs_get_tcp_session() later fails (e.g. kthread_create() returns an error), the error path frees tcp_ses without first destroying the smbd_connection. Fix this by calling smbd_destroy() in the out_err cleanup path before kfree(tcp_ses). smbd_destroy() safely handles the case where smbd_conn is NULL, so it can be called unconditionally.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4841-1, DLA-4850-1, DSA-6568-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.190-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.113-1	fixed
	forky, sid	7.2.12-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.190-1	DLA-4841-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.113-1	DSA-6568-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.8-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	DLA-4850-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/e75c96157d45e498970158c8f7373d90102e33b9 (7.3-rc4)