{"id":"CVE-2026-99210","aliases":[],"title":"accel/rocket: clear rdev on device init failure","titleSource":"Linux","descriptionSource":"Linux","products":[{"vendor":"Linux","name":"Linux","platforms":[],"versions":[{"version":"ed98261b41687323ffa02ca20fef1e60b38fd1aa","status":"affected","lessThan":"79071b67182e1b352d51a3917729b8d424710b49","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ed98261b41687323ffa02ca20fef1e60b38fd1aa","status":"affected","lessThan":"dd47a6c920083b069f00f0920e4566915a6aec46","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ed98261b41687323ffa02ca20fef1e60b38fd1aa","status":"affected","lessThan":"4ac852419f0d317c7bd8db5b8acb3cc78be7fe33","versionType":"git"}],"defaultStatus":"unaffected","source":"Linux","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99210"},{"vendor":"Linux","name":"Linux","platforms":[],"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"6.18","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.18.59","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.13","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"defaultStatus":"affected","source":"Linux","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99210"}],"remediation":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naccel/rocket: clear rdev on device init failure\n\nrocket_probe() stores the return value from rocket_device_init() in the\nfile-scoped rdev pointer before checking whether it is an error pointer.\nIf rocket_device_init() fails, rdev is left as an ERR_PTR.\n\nThe rdev pointer is also used as the marker for whether the shared rocket\ndevice has already been initialized. A later core probe can therefore see\na non-NULL rdev, skip rocket_device_init(), and dereference the error\npointer when reading rdev->num_cores.\n\nSave the error code and clear rdev before returning from the\nrocket_device_init() failure path.","severity":"unknown","score":null,"published":"2026-10-28T10:36:04.110Z","modified":"2026-10-28T10:36:04.110Z","withdrawn":false,"knownExploited":false,"affected":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79071b67182e1b352d51a3917729b8d424710b49","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd47a6c920083b069f00f0920e4566915a6aec46","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ac852419f0d317c7bd8db5b8acb3cc78be7fe33"],"sources":[{"name":"CVE","id":"CVE-2026-99210","modified":"2026-10-28T10:36:04.110Z","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99210"}],"assessments":[],"sourceAffected":[],"kev":{"status":"not-listed","checkedAt":"2026-10-29T03:15:31.428Z"},"coverage":[{"source":"NVD","status":"not-checked"},{"source":"GHSA","status":"not-checked"},{"source":"EUVD","status":"not-checked"},{"source":"EPSS","status":"not-checked"}],"evidence":[]}