UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-72391
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create() allocates
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create() allocates the I2C MDIO bus with mdio_i2c_alloc(),
a plain (non-devm) allocation, and registers it. sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy()
only unregisters the bus and clears sfp->i2c_mii without calling
mdiobus_free(). As the only reference to the bus is then cleared, the
struct mii_bus is leaked.
This is hit whenever a copper/RollBall SFP module that instantiated an MDIO
bus is removed: sfp_sm_main() takes the global teardown path and calls
sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(). sfp_cleanup(), on driver unbind, frees
sfp->i2c_mii directly, which is why the leak only triggered on module
hot-removal and not on unbind.
Free the bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy() to match the allocation done in
sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2381bf3f484e8e4fd89a225445872ec14e036ab5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3183b6f5510c876a1c4b4a6bdc3d0ad8940fe742
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86d379fcf1b79bdf4bc2ac891297f30f63d041d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f31efff9206f9f0adb853cad6916086aac4d5ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92dd9a522f01ef57f633a8c1953cf6d48ef2bcd5
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-15 via NVD.
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