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Medium [CVE-2026-74389] Fix log flood after cmd_mbox failure

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-74389.

CVE-2026-74389 Published Aug 15, 2026Updated by vendor Aug 15, 2026
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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/hns: Fix log flood after cmd_mbox failure hns_roce_cmd_mbox() is the command interface between driver and hardware. When hardware is abnormal, the unlimited error printings after hns_roce_cmd_mbox() failure will cause log flood and even system crash.

Replace ibdev_err() and ibdev_warn() with their ratelimited versions in the error handling path after hns_roce_cmd_mbox() (and its wrappers hns_roce_create_hw_ctx/hns_roce_destroy_hw_ctx) fails. When the hardware experiences an abnormality, the `hns_roce_cmd_mbox()` command interface can fail.

This failure leads to an uncontrolled flood of error messages, which can consume system resources and ultimately cause a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-779. Red Hat lists Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 as not affected.

Affected versions

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Fixed versions

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Mitigation

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