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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74297

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:29 AM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/mlx5: Fix undefined shift of user RQ WQE size

set_rq_size() computes the RQ WQE size as "1 << rq_wqe_shift" based on
the user-provided rq_wqe_shift, which is only checked to be greater than
32, so shifts of 32 are still accepted. A shift of 31 also overflows a
signed integer, leading to undefined behavior.

Use check_shl_overflow() to compute the RQ WQE size and reject any
invalid values.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42f3d2c8c18b92ea33e506a38b64f1a8986c2823
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b87a2497276a72fd63028e7419abf0fb7ed837b
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fc874fdfb366bfb11c62e6af9a831c8be59ddda
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fff54929cc00849d738faa99f06c32399aeb026
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b732db02a2b04cde393638df19de6251ce62a74e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b746f949c2ac2b041102836095d6d4a2ef21fa75
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1dbf52d24a8cb1aa56780ba51b72e7d495f258c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d881d60223aac8fdc12b227d89c76e131e92a9cd
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