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

2024-05-2009:42:01
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
octeontx2-pf
transmit scheduler
resource leak
netdev driver
round robin scheduling

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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.

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial