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Linux Kernel: Memory Leaks in Rocker World Port

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23164
Summary

A bug in the Linux kernel's rocker module causes memory to be leaked when ports are removed, leading to memory waste over time. This issue affects devices that use the rocker module, and it's fixed in a recent update. Affected users should update their Linux kernel to the latest version to prevent memory leaks.

What to do

No fix is available yet. Check with your software vendor for updates.

Affected software
VendorProductAffected versionsFix available
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-aws-hwe All versions
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-gcp All versions
canonical linux-hwe All versions
canonical linux-hwe-edge All versions
canonical linux-oracle All versions
canonical linux All versions
canonical linux-aws All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.0 All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.3 All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-azure-4.15 All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.3 All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-azure-edge All versions
canonical linux-gcp All versions
canonical linux-gcp-4.15 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.3 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-gke-4.15 All versions
canonical linux-gke-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-gkeop-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-hwe All versions
canonical linux-hwe-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-edge All versions
canonical linux-ibm-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-kvm All versions
canonical linux-oem All versions
canonical linux-oracle All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.0 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.3 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-raspi-5.4 All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux All versions
canonical linux-aws All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.11 All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.8 All versions
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.11 All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.8 All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde All versions
canonical linux-bluefield All versions
canonical linux-gcp All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.11 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.8 All versions
canonical linux-gke All versions
canonical linux-gke-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-gkeop All versions
canonical linux-gkeop-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-5.11 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-5.8 All versions
canonical linux-ibm All versions
canonical linux-ibm-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-intel-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-intel-iotg-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-iot All versions
canonical linux-kvm All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-oem-5.10 All versions
canonical linux-oem-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-oem-5.14 All versions
canonical linux-oem-5.6 All versions
canonical linux-oracle All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.11 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.13 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-5.8 All versions
canonical linux-raspi All versions
canonical linux-raspi2 All versions
canonical linux-riscv All versions
canonical linux-riscv-5.11 All versions
canonical linux-riscv-5.15 All versions
canonical linux-riscv-5.8 All versions
canonical linux-xilinx-zynqmp All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux All versions
canonical linux-allwinner-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-aws All versions
canonical linux-aws-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-aws-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-aws-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-aws-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-azure-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-azure-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-azure-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-azure-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-gcp All versions
canonical linux-gcp-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-gke All versions
canonical linux-gkeop All versions
canonical linux-hwe-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-ibm All versions
canonical linux-ibm-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-intel-iot-realtime All versions
canonical linux-intel-iotg All versions
canonical linux-kvm All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-tegra All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-tegra-igx All versions
canonical linux-oem-5.17 All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.0 All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.1 All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-oracle All versions
canonical linux-oracle-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-raspi All versions
canonical linux-realtime All versions
canonical linux-riscv All versions
canonical linux-riscv-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-riscv-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-riscv-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-starfive-5.19 All versions
canonical linux-starfive-6.2 All versions
canonical linux-starfive-6.5 All versions
canonical linux-xilinx-zynqmp All versions
canonical linux-bluefield All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux-intel-iot-realtime All versions
canonical linux-realtime All versions
canonical linux-realtime-6.8 All versions
canonical linux All versions
canonical linux-aws All versions
canonical linux-aws-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-aws-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-azure-6.11 All versions
canonical linux-azure-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-azure-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-azure-nvidia All versions
canonical linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-gcp All versions
canonical linux-gcp-6.11 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-gcp-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-gke All versions
canonical linux-gkeop All versions
canonical linux-hwe-6.11 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-hwe-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-ibm All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency All versions
canonical linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-6.11 All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-lowlatency All versions
canonical linux-nvidia-tegra All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.11 All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-oem-6.8 All versions
canonical linux-oracle All versions
canonical linux-oracle-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-oracle-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-raspi All versions
canonical linux-raspi-realtime All versions
canonical linux-realtime All versions
canonical linux-riscv All versions
canonical linux-riscv-6.14 All versions
canonical linux-riscv-6.17 All versions
canonical linux-xilinx All versions
canonical linux-aws-fips All versions
canonical linux-azure-fips All versions
canonical linux-fips All versions
canonical linux-gcp-fips All versions
canonical linux-raspi-realtime All versions
canonical linux-realtime All versions
canonical linux-realtime-6.14 All versions
canonical linux All versions
canonical linux-aws All versions
canonical linux-azure All versions
canonical linux-azure-fde All versions
canonical linux-gcp All versions
canonical linux-oracle All versions
canonical linux-raspi All versions
canonical linux-realtime All versions
canonical linux-riscv All versions
Original title
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rocker: fix memory leak in rocker_world_port_post_fini() In rocker_world_port_pre_init(), rocker_port->wpriv is allocated with kz...
Original description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rocker: fix memory leak in rocker_world_port_post_fini() In rocker_world_port_pre_init(), rocker_port->wpriv is allocated with kzalloc(wops->port_priv_size, GFP_KERNEL). However, in rocker_world_port_post_fini(), the memory is only freed when wops->port_post_fini callback is set: if (!wops->port_post_fini) return; wops->port_post_fini(rocker_port); kfree(rocker_port->wpriv); Since rocker_ofdpa_ops does not implement port_post_fini callback (it is NULL), the wpriv memory allocated for each port is never freed when ports are removed. This leads to a memory leak of sizeof(struct ofdpa_port) bytes per port on every device removal. Fix this by always calling kfree(rocker_port->wpriv) regardless of whether the port_post_fini callback exists.
Published: 14 Feb 2026 · Updated: 13 Mar 2026 · First seen: 9 Mar 2026