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

2024-05-2009:42:01

Linux

www.cve.org

vulnerability resolved

linux kernel

octeontx2-pf

transmit scheduler

resource leak

netdev driver

round robin scheduling

bug fix

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

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      "drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/qos.c"
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