CVE-2023-53546

net/mlx5: DR, fix memory leak in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx

Published: 10/4/2025 Last updated: 10/4/2025 Reserved: 10/4/2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: DR, fix memory leak in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx when mlx5_cmd_exec failed in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx, the memory pointed by 'in' is not released, which will cause memory leak. Move memory release after mlx5_cmd_exec.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (29)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes ortools_solvers orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt restricted shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
Linux	Linux	17.4.1

References (6)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/800d8c96bf997da5eb76ccf8d88795c4231c83fb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/165159854757dbae0dfd1812b27051da35aa6223
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00cecb0a8f9e7a21754d5ad85813ab6b47b3308f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3169c3854397f3070a63b1b772db16dcb8cba7b4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/622d71d99124e69f7bf2e2b7a89f5f444a24d235
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dd77585dd9d0e03dd1bceb95f0269a7eaf6b936